Rosenberg Brothers Department Store

Not to be confused with Rosenberg's 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
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 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

1. Albany, Georgia Sites on the National Register of Historic Places Archived 2013-12-07 at the Wayback Machine
2. Digital Library of Georgia (has old photograph)
3. "City purchases Albany Herald building". WFXL Fox 31. Archived from the original on March 28, 2020. Retrieved March 28, 2020.
4. "Albany Herald prepares for 'in-the-neighborhood' move". The Albany Herald. Archived from the original on March 28, 2020. Retrieved March 28, 2020.