Nathan Wolman
Nat Wolman’s Department Store

Sometime around 1920, Nathan and Fannie Hurvitz Wolman relocated to Princeton from Reading, PA, living above the dry goods store they had opened on Witherspoon Street. Fannie Wolman’s sister, Sarah, and her husband, Isadore Braveman (who would become pillars of the community) soon followed their relatives to Princeton. When Wolman built a house a few blocks away, he named the closed-end road “Shirley Court” after his daughter. When the Wolmans retired in 1955, they sold the business to David and Evelyn Landau, who moved their store, Landau’s, from Brooklyn to Princeton.