Collection Connection Tour: S.H. Kress & Company Collection
*This tour is sold out* Can a retail store be a work of public art? The Museum’s Kress Collection presents a record of nearly a century of building activity for the Kress 5-10-25 cent stores, variety stores built in elaborate Gothic Revival and streamlined Art Deco styles, and designed to be integral parts of their surrounding business districts. Take a behind-the-scenes tour with Museum staff of this exciting collection, which consists of 6,000 architectural plans, 7,000 photographs, and 50 linear feet of documents. Each tour attendee will receive a free guide book to the National Building Museum’s collection of the Kress building records.
$10 Member | $10 Student | $15 Non-member
Tour space is limited to a total of 15 attendees and requires pre-registration. To register, call Patrick Kraich at 202.272.2448, ext. 3555. Ages 18+.
Photo: Electric light sconce from the S.H. Kress & Co. store in Anniston, Alabama, c. 1935. Originally designed by Kress architect George E. MacKay in 1929, the shell-motif sconce became a standard fixture. Collection of the National Building Museum
Can a retail store be a work of public art? The Museum’s Kress Collection presents a record of nearly a century of building activity for the Kress 5-10-25 cent stores, variety stores built in elaborate Gothic Revival and streamlined Art Deco styles, and designed to be integral parts of their surrounding business districts. Take a behind-the-scenes tour with Museum staff of this exciting collection, which consists of 6,000 architectural plans, 7,000 photographs, and 50 linear feet of documents. Each tour attendee will receive a free guide book to the National Building Museum’s collection of the Kress building records.