You can use it with any noun phrase, animate or not; but there is a tendency to use it with things that have volition (people, animals, organisations).
So if I search for "chair's" in the NOW corpus, there are 613 hits; but (on my count) 94 out of the first 100 are using "chair" in its sense of "chairman/chairwoman of a meeting or organisation", and only six mean an inanimate object.
Similarly, "street's" gets 6262 hits, but almost every one is following a name (a third of those are "Wall Street's", and another 800 are "Coronation Street's", "Sesame Street's" or "Downing Street's" - all of these are or can be quasi-persons.)
Having said that, "car's" and "kitchen's" (for example) certainly do get some hits.