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The Kress store in Baton Rouge was the site of that city's first civil rights sit-in. That event helped save it from demolition 45 years later. [5] In 1964, Genesco, Inc., acquired Kress. The company abandoned its center-city stores and moved to shopping malls. Genesco began liquidating Kress and closing down the Kress stores in 1980.
S. H. Kress and Co. Building (Daytona Beach, Florida) Kress Building, Asheville, North Carolina. 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)
A Kress store building, showing the characteristic design The Kress building -- Houston, Texas. S. H. Kress & Co., a chain of "five and dime" retail department stores, was started in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, by Samuel H. Kress in 1896. Eventually expanding to over 200 locations nationwide, Kress stores were long a familiar sight in many cities ...
Samuel H. Kress wanted his dime stores to make a statement, so much so that he created a corporate division of architecture to make sure each retail location had a distinct design, be it gothic ...
Christmas shoppers filled the S.S. Kresge Store in downtown Lexington on Dec. 9, 1948. S.S. Kresge, a Detroit, Mich., company, brought their 5 and 10 cent stores to Lexington in 1912.
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The Jones Store (Kansas City), absorbed by May Department Stores 1998, sold to Macy's chain 2006; The Paris (Kansas City) Kmart (St. Louis) Newman's , acquired by parent company of Heer's of Springfield in the early 1980s, closed in 1995; Scruggs Vandervoort & Barney , closed in 1967; Stix, Baer, Fuller (St. Louis), acquired by Dillard's in 1983
Sebastian Spering Kresge (July 31, 1867 – October 18, 1966) was an American businessman. He created and owned two chains of department stores: the S. S. Kresge Company, one of the 20th century's largest discount retail organizations, and the Kresge-Newark traditional department store chain.