Old Rosenberg Dept. Store: Barnes & Noble Building by WulfstanTraveller
At the corner of 4th and D Sts. in downtown Santa Rosa is a large art-deco/art-moderne building that used to be Rosenberg's Deptartment Store. It now houses Barnes & Noble bookstore and Starbucks Coffee. The building was built in the later 1930s and from then until about 1987 housed the department store. It is updated and the businesses are different, but the building retains most of its original character inside and out, including interior columns and the mezzanine. It's one of the most significant buildings of its type and style in the region, if not the most, and it makes for a neat shopping experience. It's worth visiting just for the architectural element.
