Weis Furniture employees Alex Beck and Raul Adame III, arrange recliner chairs Thursday at the Latrobe store as they begin a liquidation sale after 107 years in business. (Louis B. Ruediger | TribLive)
Weiss Furniture store in Latrobe has begun a liquidation sale after 107 years in business. (Louis B. Ruediger | TribLive)
Dalia Dunhoff (left) and her daughter, Hayley, own and operate Latrobe’s Weiss Furniture store with their son and brother, Adam.
(Courtesy of Hayley Dunhoff)
When Weiss Furniture owner Dalia Dunhoff realized she was shopping for things like chairs and mattresses online, she knew it was time to take a look at the business.
“Retail stores are becoming fewer and fewer as more people shop online,” Dunhoff said. “In the future, perhaps that will change again, but right now we have a very large building for the amount of inventory inside.”
After 107 years in business, Weiss Furniture in Latrobe will close its doors this year.
“I’m incredibly thankful for the loyal customers, employees and friends who have sustained Weiss Furniture for more than a century,” Dunhoff said.
Weiss began hosting a total liquidation sale Thursday, and Dunhoff said she will retire following the going-out-of-business sale.
“I have seven grandkids here in Florida where I live, and I enjoy that very much,” she said.
Father and son Joseph and Hymen Weiss founded the company in 1919. The Weiss and Dunhoff families connected through marriage, and in 1950, Hymen’s brother-in-law, William Dunhoff, joined the business as a partner. William Dunhoff was responsible for overseeing its relocation and expansion to today’s 23,000-square-foot showroom at the corner of Depot Street and Lincoln Avenue.
When Hymen Weiss retired in 1973, Dunhoff took over the business with his sons, David and Richard.
In 2007, Richard Dunhoff acquired full ownership of the company and carried it forward with the help of his wife, Dalia.
Richard died in 2023, and Dalia continued carrying on the family legacy with her son, Adam, and daughter, Hayley, until making the recent decision to retire.
“My family’s had the privilege of helping generations of other families furnish their homes and celebrate life’s milestones,” Dunhoff said. “Our legacy is very much rooted in our customer service. My husband was so amazing with customers; he made them feel like family. And that’s very different from what you have now with online shopping.”
Outside of the furniture store, three generations of Dunhoff women — Gladys, Diane and Deidra — volunteered for years at the Latrobe Hospital gift shop, and the family was active in the chamber of commerce.
As for the future of the Weiss building, Dunhoff said she’s interested to see what will happen.
“We have it listed as a commercial property,” she said. “I’m curious to hear from potential lessees or buyers. We’d like to see it continue to be a special part of Latrobe.”
For more on the store’s going-out-of-business sale, see Weiss
Furniture.com.
About the Writer
Patrick Varine is a TribLive reporter covering Delmont, Export and Murrysville. He is a Western Pennsylvania native and joined the Trib in 2010 after working as a reporter and editor with the former Dover Post Co. in Delaware. He can be reached at pvarine@triblive.com.
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