Kress Building, 281 King Street
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Street view of the Kress building today. Photograph courtesy of Noah Dubois.
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Kress Building, 281 King Street
The S.H. Kress building was built in 1931 by the S.H. Kress chain of variety stores. The Art Deco building had an innovative system for bringing supplies from the third floor to the storeroom with a dumbwaiter as well as a lunch counter.…