Bounded on the right by the1902 Jackson Building
Union City, Indiana.is the three-story, rectangular, Italianate style Raphael Kirshbaum brick building.
Built in 1876, featuring rounded arch openings with pressed tin hood molds and a metal cornice with a wide overhang supported by brackets.
One of the earliest dry goods and clothing department stores in Randolph County this was owned and operated by Raphael Kirshbaum and a handful of young Jewish men born in Germany.
The Kirshbaum store continued to operate under his name until 1977 when the store closed.
The building was purchased at an auction and later sold it to the city in 1980. The city had hoped to renovate the building to use as office space but that plain failed.
In 1988 the Preservation Society of Union City purchased the building which is now the Societies headquarters along with an antique store.
The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
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