Collection Connection Tour: S.H. Kress & Company Collection
Tuesday, Sep 1, 20156 AMEDT
| National Building Museum - 401 F Street NW Washington D.C.
Washington D.C.Related
$10 Member | $10 Student | $15 Non-member. Time: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Can a retail store be a work of public art? The National Building Museum’s Kress Collection presents a record of nearly a century of building activity for the Kress 5-10-25 cent stores, variety stores built in elaborate Gothic Revival and streamlined Art Deco styles, and designed to be integral parts of their surrounding business districts. Take a behind-the-scenes tour with Museum staff of this exciting collection, which consists of 6,000 architectural plans, 7,000 photographs, and 50 linear feet of documents. Each tour attendee will receive a free guide book to the National Building Museum’s collection of the Kress building records. Tour space limited and requires pre-registration. To register, call Patrick Kraich at 202.272.2448, ext. 3555. Ages 18 and up. For more info about the Kress Collection, visit nbm.org/exhibitions-collections/collections/kress-collection.html
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