Oppenheimer-Goldblatt Bros. Department Store Bldg

Architect: Alfred S. Alschuler
Year: 1915
Style: Chicago School
City: Chicago, IL
Collection: the chicago school

This building at 4700 South Ashland Avenue was designed in 1915 by Alfred S. Alschuler in the Chicago School style for Goldblatt's, the discount department store chain founded in 1914 by Polish immigrant brothers Nate and Maurice Goldblatt. The chain grew from a single West Side grocery-turned-store into more than twenty locations before finally closing in 2000, and this building was designated a Chicago Landmark in 2013.

the style

The building is classed in the Chicago School idiom, the commercial style developed in the city for large multi-story retail and office buildings, suited here to a department store built to move shoppers and goods through open, well-lit floors.

significance

The building is an individually designated Chicago Landmark (L-320), designated May 8, 2013, and is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

nearby

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church 0.4 mi · Byzantine
Saint Gabriel Catholic Church 1.3 mi
Spiegel Office Building 1.7 mi · Streamline Moderne · 1937
Charles Warrington Earle School 1.8 mi · Renaissance Revival · 1897
Ramova Theater 1.8 mi · 1929
Du Sable High School 2.1 mi · 1931

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