The former Kress building is a largely intact dime store and is now part of Mississippi State University’s downtown Meridian campus. Its design was conceived at a time when Sibbert headed the Kress Company’s architectural division and made a Moderne style in tan brick and terra-cotta with gold and red signage the Kress image of the 1930s.

Facing Kress at 2213 5th and stretching across most of a city block, the Romanesque Revival I. A. Rosenbaum commercial building (c. 1900; storefront replaced), renamed for Meridian’s mayor who served from 1977 to 1985, has been converted to condominiums. Behind the Kress store on a traffic island between 6th and 7th streets stands a World War I Memorial. A stunted obelisk (c. 1918) built of brown rubble stone supports a bronze figure of a doughboy (1927), which is a pressed-copper replica of the original created by Americus, Georgia, sculptor E. M. Viquesney.