Robinson Department Store
- Architect
- Victor Gruen
- Year
- 1946
- Style
- Mid-Century Modern
- City
- Philadelphia, PA
The Robinson Department Store in Old City was designed in 1946 by Victor Gruen, an architect whose career would go on to shape modern retail design internationally.
the style
The store was built in a modernist idiom, part of the postwar wave of retail architecture Gruen helped define.
More on Mid-Century Modernthe architect
Victor Gruen was an internationally influential modernist architect best known for pioneering innovations in retail design.
nearby
- St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia
- New York Mutual Life Insurance Company Building
- Old Federal Reserve Bank
- Robert N.C. Nix, Sr. Federal Building
- Reading Terminal
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