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		Kress and Co. was aware of this function and erected signs in front of stores under construction urging, "Meet Your Friends at Kress." Newspaper advertisements coinciding with new store openings repeated the slogan.
		Kress patented its design for a candy counter; which took pride of place against the wall near the store entrance.
		A Kress store was often one of the few new downtown buildings constructed by private commercial interests during the Depression.
	www.nbm.org /blueprints/winter97/page2/page2.htm (1473 words)

	Backward Glance
		The Kress stores were basically five-and-dime stores, offering the breadth of choice of a large department store to a less wealthy clientele.
		Kress believed in good merchandise at an affordable price and used the buying power of his chain to shape the styles and quality of his suppliers' products.
		After the death of Rush Kress in 1963, Bucknell received an interest in the Huckleberry Hill property, which was used for a while as a faculty retreat.
	www.departments.bucknell.edu /communications/BucknellWorld/1997-3/glance.html (1280 words)

	Kress History
		Before the establishment of the Kress Foundation in 1929, Samuel H. Kress was already a recognized benefactor to as many as 200 communities in more than half of the states of the Union.
		Designed to exacting company standards, the handsome Kress stores were cherished no less as prominent local landmarks than for their quality merchandise.
		In an age of civic boosterism, the downtown 'Kress's' were celebrated beacons of prosperity and progress, exemplars of urban art, and magnets of municipal pride.
	www.kressfoundation.org /histe.html (119 words)

	Five and dime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Five and dime was a common nickname in the United States for five-and-ten-cent stores (also called 5 and 10s), popular in the early to mid-20th century.
		These stores in the century, the price range of merchandise expanded.
		Such stores have gone through various price-reference names: five-cent store, dime store, and ten-cent store, for example.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dime_store (173 words)

	Kress Terrace -- History of Kress Building
		Founded by Samuel Kress in 1896, S. Kress and Co. became a prominent five-and-dime chain known for its adundance of reasonably-priced merchandise, as well as for its beautiful buildings located in the downtown districts of cities across the country.
		Each Kress store was individually designed, and many incorporated references to unique or significant aspects of the city area in which they were located.
		The Kress store closed in 1973, but with its rich history and colorful Art-Deco style, the Kress building continues to have a strong presence in downtown Greensboro which is enjoying a marked revival.
	www.kressterrace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=browse&id=10301&pageid=43 (506 words)

	Art Deco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The New Orleans Kress was built in 1910 and was a Kress store until 1963.
		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.
		New Bern, NC The Blytheville Kress was built in 1938 and functioned as a Kress store until 1974.
	www.agilitynut.com /deco2a.html (1155 words)

	Kress Terrace -- Home
		Kress Terrace is a special event rental facility in the heart of downtown Greensboro.
		Kress Terrace is located on the fourth floor of the renowned S.H. Kress building, restored in 2000 to its original Art-Deco distinction.
		Our mission at the Kress Terrace is to provide a unique, yet exquisite facility that will accomodate a full range of events, from business luncheons and cocktail socials to rehearsal dinners and wedding receptions.
	www.kressterrace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=browse&id=10301&pageid=43 (302 words)

	7/24/2005 - What Did That Building Used to Be - 706 Market Street (Kress) - Memories - Chattanoogan.com
		Samuel Henry Kress was a native of eastern Pennsylvania.
		Kress generally leased its properties on a long-term basis, as was the case with the Chattanooga store.
		Kress was also among the discount retailers which sold deeply-discounted close-out record albums, tapes, and 45’s, which were always great as gag gifts.
	www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_69906.asp (755 words)

	Wolfsonian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Kress stores, founded by Samuel H. Kress in 1896, have a unique architectural history, thanks in large part to Kress' insistence on good store design.
		While store interiors were standardized, building exteriors were designed to fit within the architectural context of the streetscape.
		The Kress store built in 1939 in San Antonio, Texas, echoed the ornamentation of a Spanish mission.
	www.wolfsonian.fiu.edu /exhibitions/past/mainstreet.html (460 words)

	Essay: S. H. Kress in Nashville--An Art Deco Parthenon?
		The new Kress Fifth Avenue building was hailed as "the finest type of mercantile building known to modern engineering." According to a company advertisement, the store was Kress's way of showing his gratitude to the citizens of the Tennessee Valley "for their enthusiastic acceptance of his merchandising principles."
		The final and most interesting details of the Kress store are the Greek-inspired panels located to either side of the Kress logo.
		The 1936 S.H. Kress building exemplifies the pride that Samuel Kress had in his company, as well as his respect for the cities where he located his stores.
	pages.prodigy.net /nhn.slate/nh00060.html (683 words)

	Wolfsonian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Kress stores, founded by Samuel H. Kress, have a unique architectural history, which is a legacy Mr.
		While store interiors were standardized to give visitors easier access to merchandise, store exteriors were designed to fit within the architectural context of the streetscape.
		The 1939 Kress store in San Antonio, Texas, echoed the ornamentation of a Spanish mission.
	www.wolfsonian.fiu.edu /visitus/press/11.03.98.html (592 words)

	Renaissance Connection
		Samuel H. Kress was born in Cherryville, Pennsylvania, nine miles north of Allentown.
		Samuel H. Kress and Rush H. Kress were two of the founding benefactors of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and their gift of painting to the nation was widely and justly celebrated.
		Conversation between Kress and the Allentown Art Museum Board of Trustees regarding the disposition of a part of the Kress collection to Allentown had begun as early as 1938.
	www.renaissanceconnection.org /abt_kress.php (388 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Business
		About 100 of the stores will be converted into Foot Locker, Champs Sports and other stores owned by Woolworth Corp. A company spokesman said some Hawaii employees may be offered jobs in converted stores.
		Woolworth, which opened its first Hawaii store at the Kahala Mall in 1958, is the latest in a line of well-established isle retailers that have pulled out or closed the doors.
		Cornet Stores, which has operated variety stores in Hawaii since the mid 1950s, closed its last isle location in April and GEM of Hawaii Inc. closed its last store in 1993.
	starbulletin.com /97/07/17/business/story1.html (844 words)

	National Building Museum: The Architectural Heritage of S. H. Kress & Co.
		The S. Kress and Co. chain of five-and-dimes was one of the most successful retail operations of the twentieth century.
		He achieved a substantial financial return for himself, his company, and the communities where Kress stores were located by operating the business conservatively and establishing his chain of stores as an efficient retail-distribution system.
		Kress architects were responsible for designing the exteriors, interiors, and structural systems of over 200 Kress stores and for supervising other designers who oversaw renovations.
	www.nbm.org /Exhibits/past/2000_1996/Main_Street.html (451 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Kress, on U.S. Highway 87 in southern Swisher County, was originally named Wright, after a local rancher and preacher, when it was founded in 1890.
		It had a post office, a general store, and a school and was on the stage line from Canyon to Plainview.
		When the Pecos and Northern Texas Railway came through the county in 1906, the store and post office were moved two miles southwest to the present site and were named for another pioneer settler, George H. Kress.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/KK/hlk15.html (453 words)

	Samuel H. Kress Foundation - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kress filled this apartment with the expanding collection of Italian painting, sculpture and furnishings that he had begun to collect in the 1920s, and and it was there that he remained until his death in 1955.
		Kress had originally thought of establishing a public museum in New York City, but as Andrew Mellon's plans for the National Gallery unfolded Kress saw it as the perfect repository for his collection.
		In 1939 Samuel H. Kress became one of the founding benefactors of the National Gallery of Art; at its inauguration in 1941 Andrew Mellon's collection was augmented by 386 Italian paintings and 24 Italian sculptures from the Kress collection.
	www.bonus.com /contour/national_gallery/http@@/www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?83 (414 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: EL PASO MUSEUM OF ART
		Samuel H. Kress (1863-1955), founder of the Kress stores chain, began collecting paintings and sculptures by old masters, with a focus on Italian artists, during the 1920s.
		The museum was renovated in 1960 under the direction of the architectural firm Carroll and Daeuble and Associates, and in May 1961 the Kress collection was installed in three galleries of the museum's west wing.
		The Kress collection at the El Paso Museum of Art consists of fifty-seven paintings and two sculptures that range in date from 1200 to 1800.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/EE/kleqt.html (1498 words)

	Asheville's Kress Emporium
		This photo of the Kress Emporium from the early 20th century shows it was a center of activity.
		These stores were located in 28 states across the country and into Hawaii and incorporated the interest of the founder, S. Kress, into their architecture.
		The stores were stocked with high quality merchandise offered at hard-to-pass-up prices and tended by congenial sales clerks who were always eager to lend a hand.
	www.mastgeneralstore.com /msledger/august2003/communityhighlightav.php3 (413 words)

	Kress Building - Architecture in Downtown Fort Worth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This Art Deco commercial structure was designed by Edward F. Sibbert from New York, who was the architect on many of the Kress Co. stores.
		Until 1996, the Kress Building was a part of an entire Art Deco block of buildings along Houston Street.
		The gray panels that covered the Art Deco Kress logos at the parapet have been removed and the damaged parts of the facade have been replaced.
	www.fortwortharchitecture.com /kress.htm (162 words)

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	Texarkana Gazette: News and Classifieds From Texarkana, Texas/Arkansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Kress building that sits on the 100 block of West Broad Street downtown has seen better days, judging by the barrier recently built around it and its dilapidated condition.
		Despite its current state, the Kress structure is also an example of the franchise store look for Kress stores, a five-and-dime outfit popular in the early 20th Century.
		She said Kress buildings were not all exactly alike but they had a distinctive, recognizable style, including top-of-the-line mahogany showcases, an Art Deco motif, distinctive light fixtures, granite facade and curved glass store front.
	texarkanagazette.com /articles/2005/05/01/local_news/news/news03.txt (630 words)

	Columbia Museum of Art - ColumbiaSouthCarolina.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kress, founder of the S.H. Kress dime stores, assembled a collection of world renowned Baroque and Renaissance art.
		Kress gave his collection of art to museums and universities across the country.
		Through the generosity of the Kress Foundation and additional private gifts, the Columbia Museum of Art is home to one of the most impressive collections of Baroque and Renaissance paintings, sculpture and furniture in the Southeast.
	www.columbiasouthcarolina.com /art-museum.html (245 words)

	shkr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This structure housed the second Kress store built in the islands.
		The Hilo store boasted a fountain in the corner serving a wide selection of lunch items.
		A main attraction of the store was a special individually wrapped candy found only at Kress stores.
	www.k12.hi.us /~ekato/shkr.htm (65 words)

	Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement
		In this case, the man with the keys to the castle was Clarence "Curly" Harris, the long-time manager of the Woolworth store on South Elm Street, one of the most prosperous in the Woolworth chain.
		Until the store closed in 1995, a sit-in commemoration was held there every five years on Feb. 1.
		But one section of the store was forbidden territory: the long L-shaped lunch counter, with stainless steel and plastic cushion stools that took up nearly two walls of the first floor.
	www.sitins.com /story.shtml (3713 words)

	8/10/2003 - Remembering Redford's 5 Cents To A $1.00 Store - Memories - Chattanoogan.com
		William A. Redford was a pioneer of the 5 cent to a $1.00 store in Chattanooga.
		He had been connected with the S. Kress stores for 20 years prior to opening his own store.
		It would be nice to have some neighborhood variety stores which don’t require a long drive and a lot of time just to find a few items.
	www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_39615.asp (754 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was from this that the Kress chain developed, and it was the Kress name that put the "K" in K-Mart.
		In the 1920s the Kress Company moved it's headquarters to New York and there Kress ensconced himself in a two-story penthouse where he began amassing a collection of Italian painting, sculpture, and furniture.
		The much of the rest he doled out to 18 municipal museums in cities where there had long been Kress stores, in effect returning to the communities that had made him rich, an art token of his esteem.
	users.1st.net /jimlane/1999arch/7-24-99.htm (462 words)

	2004 Annual Meeting
		FRIENDS is presenting this award to Global Arch for their sensitive renovation of a historic Kress Store.
		Kress Stores have a special appeal due to the prominent position they had on many Main Streets across the country.
		According to the Kress Foundation, "In an age of civic boosterism, the downtown 'Kress's' were celebrated beacons of prosperity and progress, exemplars of urban art, and magnets of municipal pride."
	www.friends-ues.org /2004annualmeeting.htm (1121 words)

	Berkeley Daily Planet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The S.H. Kress & Co. chain of five-and-dimes was one of the most successful retail businesses of the 20th century.
		Kress even established an architectural division in 1900, and created a basic style that set his stores apart from his competitors.
		Samuel Kress also became a major Renaissance art collector, established the Kress Foundation in 1929, and donated approximately 400 works to the National Gallery in 1939.
	www.berkeleydaily.org /rediscover.cfm?archiveDate=09-17-01 (555 words)

	Samuel H. Kress \| 20th Century American Leaders Database
		Kress built a discount chain store based on an economies of scale model.
		He started offering fewer items than traditional 5- and 10- cent stores, in order to offer bargain prices to a lower-income clientele.
		Kress' stores were a great success and he managed to increase sales from $3 million in 1907 to over $40 million by the end of his tenure.
	www.hbs.edu /leadership/database/leaders/493 (62 words)

	Tribune Review Article
		This remodeling may have taken place when the older building was acquired or in 1943, after a fire in the store.
		She writes that "dime-store architecture is not to be equated with dime-store merchandise and thus dismissed as inconsequential.
		Fifteen Kress stores are on the National Register of Historic Places.
	www.phlf.org /news/mediaclips/2000/000326tr.html (1465 words)

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