Kaufmann Store and Flats

Landmark Context

Kaufmann Store and Flats is publicly anchored at 2312-14 N Lincoln Av (S Half:1883;North Half:1887) by the landmark designation record. The designation record holds onto a construction date of 1883 and credits Adler & Sullivan. It was designated on April 16, 1996. Kaufmann Store and Flats keeps commercial development, architectural branding, and corridor and downtown change grounded in a real building even when the public record is brief.

Kaufmann Store and Flats becomes materially clearer through storefront depth, upper-floor expression, and corner treatment, how the facade addresses pedestrian traffic, and later signage, infill, or reuse. Those clues are often the clearest route into how commercial architecture stayed visible even as the economic life around it changed.

Research Starting Points

Kaufmann Store and Flats becomes a stronger research subject once the record expands into trade press and city directories, permit files and assessor records, and historic photographs and newspaper coverage. Those records make it easier to test what changed, what remained, and how the building fit into a larger local story.

Kaufmann Store and Flats still needs deeper source work, but the landmark record already keeps that work tied to one place.