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    Two department store buildings designated

    Designation  •  Downtown Brooklyn

    A.I. Namm & Son Department Store and Offerman Building Designated. On March 15, 2005, Landmarks designated the A.I. Namm & Son Department Store and the Offerman Building, both located on Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn.

    The A.I. Namm & Son Department Store, 450-458 Fulton Street, first opened in 1891 at 452 Fulton Street and gradually expanded in 1924-25 and 1928-29. Robert D. Kohn and Charles Butler created a modern design with a structural steel frame reinforced by concrete floors, Indiana limestone cladding and a horizontal tripartite division. In approving, Landmarks noted that the building is a significant architectural remnant of Brooklyn’s late nineteenth and early twentieth century commercial nucleus. (read more…)

    Tags : 450-458 Fulton Street, 503-13 Fulton Street, A.I. Namm & Son Department Store, Offerman Building
    Date:04/15/2005
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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