America's 5 & 10 cent stores : the Kress legacy / Bernice L. Thomas.

Main entry:

Thomas, Bernice L.

Title & Author:

America's 5 & 10 cent stores : the Kress legacy / Bernice L. Thomas.

Publication:

Description:

xii, 196 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
"National Building Museum."
"Preservation Press."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-187) and index.
Kress and dime-store architecture -- Beginnings -- Grand allusions -- Kress modernism -- New York/Fifth Avenue -- Building to the end -- Conclusion.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0471181951 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780471181958 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

S.H. Kress & Co.
S. H. Kress & Co.
Genesco Inc.
Variety stores United States.
Storefronts United States.
Store decoration United States.
Bazars États-Unis.
Devantures de magasin États-Unis.
Magasins Décoration États-Unis.
Store decoration
Storefronts
Variety stores
Ladenbau
Ersparnis
Warenhaus
United States
USA

Form/genre:

Books.

Added entries:

National Building Museum (U.S.)
Preservation Press.

America's five and ten cent stores

Holdings:

Location: Library main 134059
Call No.: ID NA6227.V37.T56; ID:97-B380
Status: Available

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