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Designed by architect Charles Bickel, the Kaufmann's flagship store was built in 1887 at 400 Fifth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh. Known as The Big Store, it continued to undergo several expansions and renovations in later years.
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23 de dic. de 2015 · Between the high ceilings, mural-filled sight lines, and Benno Janssen’s sleek modernist transformation of the vertical pillars (using Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company’s structural glass tiles), Kaufmann’s merchandise-laden first floor befitted a cultural palace for the 1930s.
In 1885, Kaufmann’s moved into a new flagship location, a block-long building, known as the “Grand Depot,” and later, “The Big Store.” Among its details was a tower topped by a statue of the Goddess of Liberty holding a flaming torch, which was lit by natural gas.
18 de nov. de 2015 · Kaufmann’s opened its first branch store in Monroeville, east of the city, in 1961, followed by a store on the southern edge of Mt. Lebanon, an upper-middle-class inner-ring suburb in the South Hills, in 1964. A Kaufmann’s opened on McKnight Road in the North Hills a year after that.
Explore the history of Kaufmann's, a Pittsburgh landmark since 1871, through a collection of photographs spanning over a century.
By 1888, the store was advertised as "The Big Store" and began to carry women's clothing, housewares, and shoes. Since 1871, the store had been exclusively a men's store. The Kaufmann brothers' business practices were revolutionary at the time.
