Rosenberg Brothers Department Store facts for kids
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Rosenberg Brothers Department Store
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View from the intersection of Pine Avenue & Washington Street
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| Location | Albany, Georgia, USA |
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| Built | 1924 |
| Architect | J. C. Hind and J. T. Murphy |
| Architectural style | Second Renaissance Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 82002406 |
| Added to NRHP | August 19, 1982 |
The Rosenberg Brothers Department Store building is located in downtown Albany, Georgia, USA. The three-story brick structure was built in 1924 in an Italianate/Neo-Renaissance Classical Revival style by J.C. Hind and J. T. Murphy.
Jacob Rosenberg was a Jewish merchant who leased a store at this prominent corner lot in 1896. The site was owned by the Tift family, who founded Albany. Rosenberg had a new department store building constructed on the site in 1923 in a Second Renaissance Revival architecture style. It continued in business until 1978 when a second Rosenberg's location opened within the, then new, Albany Mall in 1976. Gray Communications bought and renovated the building in 1985 to house the Albany Herald.
The building, and several nearby buildings, were sold to the city of Albany for $850,000. The Herald, which occupied the building for more than three decades, moved out in December 2019.
