Schoenhof’s Foreign Books To Close Brick-and-Mortar Store

After 161 years of business, Schoenhof’s Foreign Books plans to permanently shutter its doors on March 25.  Schoenhof’s, the self-described “oldest and largest foreign language-only bookstore in the United States,” was originally founded in Boston in 1856. The store moved to Cambridge in the early 1900s and has been at its Mount Auburn St. location in Harvard Square since 1983.