Original Building Exterior, Kann's Department Store

ID: 5394 ~ Source: Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress ~ Date: 1910-1935

This file appears in: Finding Style in DC: Navigating DC’s Shopping Scene - Kann's Department Store: The building’s proposed demolition was highly contested and ended with tragedy.

Photograph: the original Kann's building wrapped around the corner and featured multiple signs indicating the store's presence.

This file appears in: Finding Style in DC: Navigating DC’s Shopping Scene - Kann's Department Store: The building’s proposed demolition was highly contested and ended with tragedy.

Finding Style in DC: Navigating DC’s Shopping Scene - Kann's Department Store: The building’s proposed demolition was highly contested and ended with tragedy.

By The DC Historic Sites team

While the business originated in Baltimore in the 1860s, where the Kanns had settled after immigrating to the United States from Germany, Solomon Kann (with his three sons, Louis, Simon, and Sigmund)…