America's 5 & 10 cent stores
Subtitle: the Kress legacy
By: Bernice L. Thomas.
Contributors: National Building Museum (U.S.); Preservation Press.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Wiley
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: S. H. Kress & Co; Variety stores -- United States; Storefronts -- United States; Store decoration -- United States
Other titles: America's five and ten cent stores
Description: This lavishly illustrated homage to the 5-&-10-cent store, architectural historian Bernice Thomas looks at the architectural achievements of the Kress Company. Devoted to bringing outstanding design to Main Street America, Kress supported an architectural division of more than 100 architects and draftsmen. The over 200 stores these people designed and built between 1900 and 1950 set a new standard in commercial architecture.

Thomas takes us on an illustrated tour of sites across the United States - from New Orleans to Honolulu, Albuquerque to New York. She introduces us to the architects and how they deftly balanced sound merchandising principles with aesthetics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-187) and index.
"National Building Museum."
"Preservation Press."