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America's 5 & 10 cent stores : the Kress legacy
- Title
- America's 5 & 10 cent stores : the Kress legacy / Bernice L. Thomas.
- Author
- Thomas, Bernice L.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : National Building Museum : Preservation Press ; New York : John Wiley, [1997], ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | NA6227.V37 T56 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 196 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- America's five and ten cent stores
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-187) and index.
- ISBN
- 0471181951 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97004171
- OCLC
- ocm36407707
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries