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Kaufmann's was a department store that originated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The store was owned in the early 20th century by Edgar J. Kaufmann , patron of the famous Fallingwater house. In the post-war years, the store became a regional chain in the eastern United States , and was last owned by Federated Department Stores .
The Kaufmann's Department Store Warehouse (also known as the Forbes Stevenson Building, or Forbes Med-Tech Center) located in the Bluff neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a building from 1901. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. [1] [2]
Edgar Jonas Kaufmann (November 1, 1885 – April 15, 1955) [1] was an American businessman and philanthropist who owned and directed Kaufmann's Department Store, in Pittsburgh. He is also known for commissioning two modern architectural masterpieces, Fallingwater , designed by Frank Lloyd Wright , and the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs ...
Kaufmann is a surname with many variants such as Kauffmann, Kaufman, and Kauffman. In German , the name means merchant . It is the cognate of the English Chapman (which had a similar meaning in the Middle Ages, though it disappeared from modern English).
Kaufman-Straus was a local department store that operated in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1879 to 1969.In 1879, local retail clerk Henry Kaufman opened the first store on Jefferson between 7th and 8th.
The Kaufmann Desert House, or simply the Kaufmann House, is a house in Palm Springs, California, that was designed by architect Richard Neutra in 1946. It was commissioned by Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr. , a businessman who also commissioned Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Kaufman was born on January 17, 1949, in New York City, the oldest of three children. He grew up with his younger brother Michael and sister Carol in a middle-class Jewish family in Great Neck, Long Island. [10]
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (1950; second edition 1956; third edition 1968; fourth edition 1974; fifth edition 2013) is a book about the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche by the philosopher Walter Kaufmann.