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Kress Building (Blytheville, Arkansas)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
97000555

Architectural style
  
Art Deco

Built
  
1938 (1938)

Opened
  
1938

Added to NRHP
  
13 June 1997

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Location
  
210 W. Main St., Blytheville, Arkansas

The Kress Building is a historic commercial building at 210 West Main Street in Blytheville, Arkansas. It is a two story concrete and steel structure, faced in brick and terra cotta. Built in 1938, it was one of the first buildings in the city to be built using steel framing, and is one of its finest Art Deco structures. The first floor areas (outside the plate glass store windows) are faced in terra cotta, while the second floor is predominantly cream-colored brick. Windows on the second floor are surrounded by ivory terra cotta incised with fluting and shell patterns.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. It is in the Blytheville Commercial Historic District, also listed on the NRHP.

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Kress Building (Blytheville, Arkansas) Wikipedia