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The Kress building in Houston, Texas, 2020 Kress store building in Lubbock, Texas showing the characteristic design A Kress building in Tampa, Florida. Kress opened his first stationery and notions store in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, in 1887. The chain of S. H. Kress & Co. 5-10-25 Cent Stores was established in 1896 in Memphis, Tennessee.
This is a List of S. H. Kress and Co. buildings that are notable. This includes buildings named Kress Building or variations. Historic S. H. Kress & Co. structures include: S. H. Kress and Co. Building (Augusta, Georgia) S. H. Kress and Co. Building (Anniston, Alabama), listed on the NRHP in Calhoun County, Alabama in 1985
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Samuel H. Kress, a businessman, founder of the organizations in this section; S. H. Kress & Co., a former chain of "five and dime" stores in the United States Tiendas Kress, the still-operating Puerto Rico subsidiary selling women's clothing
Samuel Henry Kress (July 23, 1863 – September 22, 1955) was a businessman, philanthropist, and founder of the S. H. Kress & Co. five and ten cent store chain. With his fortune, Kress amassed one of the most significant collections of Italian Renaissance and European artwork assembled in the 20th century. In the 1950s and 1960s, a foundation ...
He is best remembered for the fifty or so retail stores he designed during a 25-year career as the head architect at the S. H. Kress & Co. chain of five-and-dimes. His tenure at Kress coincided roughly with the company's peak years of success, and many of his Art Deco -style buildings have survived beyond the chain's 1980 demise and are in use ...
The Kress Building, also known as S.H. Kress and Co. Building, is a Classical Moderne Art Deco building in downtown Fort Worth.Designed by New York architect Edward F. Sibbert, the five-story Kress building served the “five-and-dime” chain from 1936 through 1960 and was one of the only major construction projects in Fort Worth built using private money during the Great Depression.
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