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Kresge was born near Allentown, Pennsylvania, the son of Sebastian Kresge and the former Catherine Kunkle.Living on the family farm in Kresgeville (named for his ancestors) until he was 21 years old, he was educated in the local public schools, the Fairview Academy, in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania, and at the Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York, from which he graduated in March ...
George Joseph Kresge (born 1935), American mentalist, the Amazing Kreskin; Karen Kresge (born 1957), British choreographer; Sebastian Spering Kresge (1867–1966), American merchant and philanthropist, founder of Kmart, formerly known as the S. S. Kresge Company; Fictional characters: Lynne Kresge, character in the second season of the TV series 24
The Metropolitan Center for High Technology, formerly S. S. Kresge World Headquarters, is an office building located at 2727 Second Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1979.
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Kmart's longest lasting logo, used from 1969 to 1990. Under the leadership of executive Harry Cunningham, S.S. Kresge Company opened the first Kmart-named store, at 27,000 square feet (2,500 square meters), which was referred to by Kresge as a "bantam" Kmart and was in fact originally intended to be a Kresge store until late in the planning process, on January 25, 1962, in San Fernando ...
Kresge's and S. S. Kresge (incorporated in 1899), [257] later K-Mart Corporation (headquartered in Troy), then Sears Holdings Corporation is frequently credited with invention of the modern discount department store with the opening of Kmart in 1962. The last Kresge's store in Livonia, Michigan closed in 1987.
The Kresge Foundation is a philanthropic private foundation headquartered in Troy, Michigan, United States. [1] The foundation works to expand opportunities in America's cities through grantmaking and investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services and community development efforts. [2]
Kresge may refer to: Kresge (surname) S. S. Kresge Corporation, a former American department store chain, predecessor of Kmart retail stores; The Kresge Foundation, a philanthropic organization established by Sebastian S. Kresge in 1924; Kresge Hearing Research Institute, a research institute of Department of Otolaryngology in Ann Arbor, Michigan