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S. H. Kress and Company Building (Birmingham, Alabama), listed on the NRHP in Alabama in 1982 2 of 3. 1910-1914 2nd Avenue. S. H. Kress and Company Building (Birmingham, Alabama) 3 of 3. 3001 27th Street. S. H. Kress and Co. Building (Blytheville, Arkansas), listed on the NRHP in Mississippi County, Arkansas In 1997
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.
The S. H. Kress and Co. Building, or simply the Kress Building, is located at 705 Main Street in Houston, Texas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 4, 2002. [2] The eight-story building is covered almost entirely in terra cotta.
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.
The Kress building is located between former Woolworth and J.J. Newberry stores, although the block is commonly known as the "Kress block." [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Lunch-counter sit-ins and protests at the block were held by civil rights activists at the Woolworth store in the 1960s to protest segregated lunch counters in Tampa.
Jim Copeland shares his knowledge on the old Kress/Fred's building "About the Kress Building (318 Texas Street): When I worked there in the early 80s pretty much all of the first floor (retail ...
Built in 1935, Hollywood's S. H. Kress and Co. Building was designed by Edward F. Sibbert, [1] one of fifty or so S. H. Kress & Co. buildings he designed across the United States. [2] Like most S. H. Kress and Co. locations, this building features an Art Deco design, with this specific location being "a prime example of the Art Deco style." [3]
The S. H. Kress and Co. Building at 1442 Main Street in Sarasota, Florida, United States is a historic department store building. It was part of the S. H. Kress & Co. "five and dime" department store chain. On March 22, 1984, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.