Rosenberg Brothers Department Store

Rosenberg Brothers Department Store
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
View from the intersection of Pine Avenue & Washington Street
Location	Albany, Georgia, USA
Coordinates	31°34′42″N 84°09′04″W / 31.57833°N 84.15111°WCoordinates: 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 #	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.^[1][2]

References

1. Albany, Georgia Sites on the National Register of Historic Places
2. Digital Library of Georgia (has old photograph)