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Kresge Groth Building

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architect
  
Holmes, Harold

Opened
  
1926

Built
  
1926 (1926)

NRHP Reference #
  
88001223

Added to NRHP
  
25 August 1988

Kresge-Groth Building

Location
  
914 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne, Indiana

Architectural style
  
Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Mission/spanish Revival

Similar
  
Fort Wayne Children's Zoo, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Johnny Appleseed Park, Cathedral of the Immacula, Three Rivers Festival

Kresge-Groth Building is a historic commercial building located in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana. It was built in 1926, and is a three-story, three bay, Spanish Colonial Revival style brick building. The front facade features three round-topped wall arches and two-story engaged limestone columns. The building originally housed the S. S. Kresge Company and after 1933 the Earl Groth Company. It was occupied by from 1964 to 1971 by Walgreen Drug Store.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

References

Kresge-Groth Building Wikipedia