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Rosenberg's Department Store is located at Fourth and D Streets in downtown Santa Rosa, California. The structure is the most significant example of the Streamline Moderne style in Santa Rosa, and was the tallest building in the city for many years. ==History== The store was planned to replace a 1907 store owned by Max and Fred Rosenberg that burned in 1936. The design for the new store was carried out by Hertzka and Knowles of San Francisco in 1936, and construction by contractors Moore and Roberts started on January 19, 1937. The store opened on October 27, 1937, along with the Purity grocery store in a one-story section. A model of the building was shown as "an exemplar of future architectural technology" at the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair. In 1951 Joseph Edward McNeany purchased Rosenberg's for $1.5 million. The store was substantially renovated and expanded in 1964. After modernizing the three-story store it was merged in 1966 with Aldens Inc., a Chicago-based mail order and retail sales subsidiary of Gambel-Skogmo. Under terms of the agreement, McNeany stayed on as a consultant and his son, William, became vice president and general manager of Rosenberg's. It closed in 1988 and was vacant until 1994.〔 That year, the Art Deco Society of California recognized the structure with its Preservation Award in 1988 to encourage the building's owners to save the structure.〔〔 The city government approved demolition of the store in 1994, but it was subsequently saved when bookstore chain Barnes & Noble leased the space.〔 The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 29, 1994.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rosenberg's Department Store」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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