If you’ve shopped in a grocery store recently, you’re likely familiar with the Heinz name. But did you know that its early-1900s factory buildings, which helped them become a household name by producing hundreds of Heinz-branded grocery products, are now home to hundreds of loft-style apartment units along the Allegheny......
Long before the days of glitzy, sprawling suburban malls, the Westminster Arcade in Providence, RI, became one of America’s first enclosed shopping malls. The Westminster Arcade, which replicated similar successful concepts overseas as well as a couple of less-successful attempts in the U.S., bares only a slight resemblance to modern......
The Eastern-Columbia building at 9th and Broadway is among the most distinctive buildings within Los Angeles’ historic core, thanks to its unique turquoise hue and having been featured in numerous TV shows and movies over the years. The 13-story reinforced concrete building was constructed in 1930 as a flagship store......
While the company has fallen on hard times in recent years, there was once a time when Sears was a retail giant. In the early 1900s, Sears, Roebuck, & Co., as it was then known, was in the midst of rapid growth fueled by its popular catalogs that allowed it......
Now home to over 200 residential units, Schmidt Artist Lofts in St. Paul, MN, has a history that dates back to 1855. That’s when the original structure at 900 W. 7th Street was first constructed to serve a different brewery, Christopher Stahlmann’s Brewing Co. The building’s distinctive characteristic at the......
When The Lofts San Marco’s building was first built in Jacksonville, FL’s San Marco neighborhood, the area surrounding it was quite different from what it is now. For one, it wasn’t known as San Marco. The building, located at 1450 Flagler Avenue, began its lifespan in 1916 as the South......
