Kruger’s Furniture and Appliance
907 Grand Avenue (demolished)
Kruger’s Furniture and Appliance c. 1960. Photo courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven.
Kruger’s Furniture and Appliance was one of many family-owned furniture stores on Grand Avenue in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Kruger’s sold many household items, such as chairs, lamps and couches. Anti-semitism sometimes made it difficult for Eastern European Jewish immigrants to get work in the local factories, so instead they opened businesses to provide goods and services to the factory workers. The building was demolished in the late 1960s. Today, 907 Grand Avenue is a parking lot adjacent to Unger’s Floor Covering.
Text source: Ladin, Harvey. “The Grand Avenue Jews.” Jews in New Haven, Volume II. Edited by Dr. Barry Herman, Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven, October 1979, pp. 84-97.
On the grand avenue (STATE TO EAST STREET) Tour
1 | Congregation Mishkan Israel
4 | DelMonico Hatter
6 | Unger's Flooring
7 | Kruger's Furniture and Appliance
8 | Perelmutter's Department Store
9 | The Terese Furniture Company
10 | San Carlino Theater
12 | Lenzi Park
13 | The Boys Club
15 | Miller's Clothes
17 | Lender's Bagels
18 | St. Patrick's Church
19 | Farnam Courts
21 | Ferraro's Market
22 | Sisk Brothers Funeral Home
24 | Lillian's Paradise