1920's Notice commending M. B. Arnstein & Co. which appeared in the Knoxville High School annual, the Voice, 1920.  Max and Lalla Arnstein, benefactors of Temple Beth El and the Jewish Community Center (renamed after their passing as the Arnstein Jewish Community Center) and other institutions, lived in Knoxville from the early 1900’s until 1929.  Their portraits hang in the AJCC.  The seven-story Arnstein Building, at the corner of Union and Market Streets, was Knoxville’s tallest building when completed in 1906.  The Arnstein store was considered one of the finest department stores in the South.  Today the building houses Urban Outfitters, BarberMcMurray Architects, and twenty apartments.

Arnstein Building	Wrapping Paper from Arnstein Department Store

Max and Lalla Arnstein

Thanks to the Weinstein family for donating the Voice to the Archives.

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