"Doors on Broadway Series #6"The utilitarian door handles on the former S. H. Kress store at 1109 Broadway don't reflect the elegant style of the building. Kress started his retail business in the 1890s and unabashedly helped himself to Woolworth's "five and dime" concept. While hundreds of Kress stores were built across the nation, only about 100 survive. Kress envisioned his stores as works of public art that would contribute to the cityscape and employed an architecture division with Edward F. Sibbert, Jr as lead architect. The Lubbock store was built in 1932 in Mission-Revival style and displays the typical terra cotta ornamentation, marble and brick. Gilded signs with "Kress" are still on the facade and inlaid in the entryways. The building was purchased by Goodwill which still offers "five and dime" merchandise.
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