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.
Rosenberg Brothers Department Store | |
 View from the intersection of Pine Avenue & Washington Street | |
| Location | Albany, Georgia, USA |
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| Coordinates | 31°34′42″N 84°09′04″W / 31.57833°N 84.15111°W |
| 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 |
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 for $850,000 (~$2.05 million in 2023) to house the Albany Herald.[1][2]
The building, and several nearby buildings, were sold to the city of Albany for $850,000.[3] The Herald, which occupied the building for more than three decades, moved out in December 2019.[4]
References
edit- ^ Albany, Georgia Sites on the National Register of Historic Places Archived 2013-12-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Digital Library of Georgia (has old photograph)
- ^ "City purchases Albany Herald building". WFXL Fox 31. Archived from the original on March 28, 2020. Retrieved March 28, 2020.
- ^ "Albany Herald prepares for 'in-the-neighborhood' move". The Albany Herald. Archived from the original on March 28, 2020. Retrieved March 28, 2020.