S. H. Kress Store (Business and Technology Center)

S. H. Kress Store (Business and Technology Center)

S. H. Kress Store (Business and Technology Center) Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
1930, George E. Mackay. 301 Main St. (northwest corner of 3rd St.)

Samuel H. Kress's five-and-dime empire peaked at 264 stores, designed by an in-house architecture department. This Art Deco delight is yellow brick with poly-chrome terracotta trim and ornament, including modernistic Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep heads adorning the third-story frieze.

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