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| KRESS STORES (page 2) |
| Kress East Orange, NJ |
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| The East Orange Kress was built in 1932 and is now used as a discount store. The building features white terra cotta with polychrome details. The details have stylized Egyptian and Mayan elements. |
| Kress Wichita, KS |
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| This Neo-Gothic Wichita Kress was built in 1929. It was built as an experiment to see if elegantly designed buildings would improve sales. It proved to be the case. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now houses the Kress Energy Center. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. [middle photo thanks Glenda Campbell] |
| Kress Anniston, AL |
Kress Atlanta, GA |
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This Anniston Kress opened in 1935. It was actually an updated storefront and interior of previous Kress stores on the same site from 1905 and 1917. Beneath the present-day box near the roofline is (hopefully) the original curved gold Kress lettering. The five boxes above the ground floor appear to still contain the individual letters that spell K-R-E-S-S. The only other Kress that had this feature is the one in Hollywood, CA. Under the "Super 10" sign is the painted over strip sign that read "S.H. Kress & Co. 5-10-25 Cent Store". The terra cotta facade contains tiny gold flecks. The roughly textured window panes were also tinted with gold. For more, see this website.
This Atlanta Kress needs a good restoration. It was built in 1911 but was apparently updated later in the Art Deco style. Next door is a McCrory's, another Art Deco building. There was another Atlanta Kress on Peachtree Street from the 1930s but it was demolished in the early 1990s. |
| Kress Greensboro, NC |
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The Greensboro Kress was built in 1930. It was the first Kress building designed by Edward F. Sibbert who was responsible for Kress' Art Deco designs. He joined the company in 1929 and designed about 50 stores over a 25 year period. They typically had glazed white terra cotta façades and marble encrusted interiors.
This Kress building was actually built on the site of a previous Kress store from 1903. This Kress is famous for the sit-in protests that took place here in 1960 (when the lunch counter was for whites only). The store closed in 1973 and sat vacant for nearly 30 years. It was restored in 2000. The top, fourth floor is used by Kress Terrace as a rentable banquet hall and the third floor is home to an architectural firm but the ground floor is still empty. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. |
| Kress Pueblo, CO |
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| The Pueblo Kress is located downtown and was built in 1929. It was the last one designed by George Mackay. There may have been some input by Edward Sibbert in the details as well. The building now houses the Business & Technology Center. |
| Kress Amarillo, TX |
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| The Amarillo Kress was built in 1932. It originally had a vertical blade sign on the building corner and the canopy's glass squares, now painted, were backlit. The store closed in the mid-1970s and now houses Center City Furniture and Center City Finance. For more, see this website. |
| Kress Lubbock, TX |
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| The Lubbock Kress, designed by Sibbert, was built in 1932 in a Mission/Spanish Revival style. The building is listed on the National Register of Historick Places. It is now used as a Goodwill store. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. |
| Kress Daytona Beach, FL |
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| The Daytona Beach Kress, designed by Sibbert, was built in 1932. The buff brick building is faced with terra cotta on the front and north side of the building. For more, see this website. |
| Kress Sarasota, FL |
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| The Sarasota Kress was built in 1932, the design of G.A. Miller. It has the typically beautiful Kress terra cotta ornamentation. For another photo, see this website. |
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