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Kress Building (Columbia, South Carolina)

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Built
  
1934 (1934)

NRHP Reference #
  
79003376

Area
  
800 m²

Added to NRHP
  
2 March 1979

MPS
  
Columbia MRA

Opened
  
1934

Architectural style
  
Art Deco

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Location
  
1508 Main St., Columbia, South Carolina

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Kress Building is a historic commercial building located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1934 by S. H. Kress & Co., and is a two-story, Art Deco style building faced with white terra cotta and colored terra cotta ornamentation. It features rounded storefront windows and cornice that contains the word “Kress” and surmounted by a stepped parapet.

Map of Kress Building, Main St, Columbia, SC 29201, USA

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

References

Kress Building (Columbia, South Carolina) Wikipedia