Place 17: Freese's Department Store
1958; 1985Opposite the Aladdin/Nan's side of Main Street. Richie evades Henry in its toy department. The department arrangement is not mapped.
About Freese's Department Store
Freese’s Department Store is a substantial Main Street retailer and a central reference point in Derry’s shopping district. It occupies the side of Main opposite the Aladdin Theater and Nan’s Luncheonette and includes a toy department within the larger store. The business appears in both the childhood and adult periods, helping tie the commercial street together across time. The atlas maps the store as a single urban footprint without attempting to reproduce its internal departments.
Why this pin is marked A
Named in the novel. The street or the site is named in the text; the exact lot is the atlas’s.
Freese’s is marked A because its position opposite the Aladdin–Nan’s side of Main Street is stated, while repeated references confirm the store’s identity and downtown role. The relationship anchors it to the correct side of the commercial corridor relative to two other mapped businesses. No street number, exact corner, frontage length, entrance position, or floor plan is provided. The marker and building outline therefore reconstruct the parcel while preserving the supported cross-street relationship and store type.
