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The Kress building in Houston, Texas, 2020 Kress store building in Lubbock, Texas showing the characteristic design A Kress building in Tampa, Florida. Kress opened his first stationery and notions store in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, in 1887. The chain of S. H. Kress & Co. 5-10-25 Cent Stores was established in 1896 in Memphis, Tennessee.
W.N. Flynt Granite Co., in Monson, Massachusetts, a granite quarry that opened in 1809 and operated until 1935. By 1888, the company employed over 200 workers, and produced about 30,000 tons of granite per year. Quincy Quarries Reservation, in Quincy, Massachusetts, producer of granite from 1826 to 1963, including for the Bunker Hill Monument.
NRHP reference No. 83001424 [ 1] Added to NRHP. April 7, 1983. The S. H. Kress and Co. Building is a historic 1928 [ 2][ 3] building in Tampa, Florida, United States. It was part of the S. H. Kress & Co. "five and dime" department store chain. The store closed in 1981, and has since remained vacant. [ 3][ 4] on April 7, 1983, it was added to ...
August 20, 2024 at 1:45 PM. A library dean at a Florida college that has been overhauled by state Republicans and their allies has been placed on administrative leave after hundreds of books, many ...
1–01. "A Tour of the House". January 1, 1979. (January 1, 1979) The series premiere opens with Bob Vila welcoming the viewers to This Old House. The series will reveal the many steps involved in rehabbing an old house into a family home. Rehabbing is a combination of restoring and renovating, from demolition to decoration.
Granite (/ ˈɡrænɪt / GRAN-it) is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies underground.
Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. [12] [1] [13] According to the American Historical Association (AHA), the erection of Confederate monuments during the early 20th century was "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South."
Tallahassee, Florida: 1 [n 1] 3 4: At around 12:40 a.m. EST, a gunman opened fired in or near the Strozier Library at Florida State University. Three people suffered gunshot injuries and were taken to a local area hospital. One was in critical condition, another was in good condition, and the third was shortly released after treatment.