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S. H. KRESS AND COMPANY BUILDING

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c. 1934, Edward F. Sibbert; 2016 renovated. 2214 5th St.

The former Kress building is a largely intact dime store and is now part of Mississippi State University’s downtown Meridian campus. Its design was conceived at a time when Sibbert headed the Kress Company’s architectural division and made a Moderne style in tan brick and terra-cotta with gold and red signage the Kress image of the 1930s.

Facing Kress at 2213 5th and stretching across most of a city block, the Romanesque Revival I. A. Rosenbaum commercial building (c. 1900; storefront replaced), renamed for Meridian’s mayor who served from 1977 to 1985, has been converted to condominiums. Behind the Kress store on a traffic island between 6th and 7th streets stands a World War I Memorial. A stunted obelisk (c. 1918) built of brown rubble stone supports a bronze figure of a doughboy (1927), which is a pressed-copper replica of the original created by Americus, Georgia, sculptor E. M. Viquesney.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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What's Nearby

MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY RILEY CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND PERFORMING ARTS (GRAND OPERA HOUSE AND MARKS, ROTHENBERG AND COMPANY STORE)
Mississippi State University Riley Center for Education and Performing Arts
THREEFOOT BUILDING
REGIONS BANK (AMSOUTH BANK)
MERIDIAN MUNICIPAL BUILDING (CITY HALL)

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "S. H. KRESS AND COMPANY BUILDING", [Meridian, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-EM11.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 216-216.

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