Saks Fifth Avenue is an American chain of luxury department stores owned, since 2013, by the oldest commercial corporation in North America, the Hudson's Bay Company. Its main flagship store is located on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Saks Fifth Avenue is the successor of a business founded by Andrew SAKS in 1867 and incorporated in New York in 1902 as Saks & Company. SAKS died in 1912, and in 1923 Saks & Co. merged with Gimbel Brothers, Inc., which was owned by a cousin of Horace SAKS, Bernard GIMBEL, operating as a separate autonomous subsidiary. On September 15, 1924, Horace SAKS and Bernard GIMBEL opened Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City, with a full-block avenue frontage south of St. Patrick's Cathedral, facing what would become Rockefeller Center. The architects were Starrett & van Vleck, who developed a reticent, genteel Anglophile classicizing facade similar to their Gimbels Department Store in Pittsburgh (1914).