| Rosenberg Brothers Department Store | |
| Nrhp Type: | nrhp |
| Coordinates: | 31.5783°N -84.1511°W |
| Built: | 1924 |
| Architect: | J. C. Hind and J. T. Murphy |
| Added: | August 19, 1982 |
| Refnum: | 82002406 |
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 for $850,000 (~$ in) 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]