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Kress Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Kress Building is a historic commercial building at 210 West Main Street in Blytheville, Arkansas. It is a two-story concrete and steel structure, faced in brick and terra cotta.”

Wikipedia article S. H. Kress and Co. Building (Blytheville, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Mississippi County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 210 W. Main St., Blytheville, 72315
  • When was it listed? June 1997
  • Category. building
  • Township. Chickasawba township
  • Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
  • National Register reference number. 97000555 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Storms near this property

60 of 69 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blytheville, the town this property stands in, in 69 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 30 thunderstorm wind, 28 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 lightning. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1999LightningBlytheville1 killedA man was killed by a lightning strike while working on the roof of a building.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines. Some roads were blocked for a time by fallen trees.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$40,000Several cotton wagons are blown over. A few power poles were snapped. A privacy fence was also blown down. A carport had a wall blown out. Numerous trees were knocked down. One tree fell on a garage.
April 1998Tornado (F1)Blytheville$25,000The tornado touched down in the south central part of Blytheville. The main damage was contained in a two-block section. A 60-ton air conditioner until located on the roof of a supermarket was moved. Many large trees were toppled and several residences sustained roof damage.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$20,000A tree fell on a house causing significant damage.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$20,000One building suffered roof and structural damage. Some trees and power lines were blown down.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$15,000Tree down on a truck on County Road 711.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$10,000A church had some of its windows blown out. Several trees were knocked down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$10,000Several trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2007LightningBlytheville$7,000Lightning struck a tree and power lines on West Walnut Street in Blytheville causing them to fall on a nearby house. Moderate damage was reported to the house, but no injuries were reported.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$7,000Straight line winds blew a tree down on a house as well as a few other trees in Blytheville.
January 2006Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$5,000A non-structural wall located at the back of the Great River Medical Center was blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$5,000Some trees were blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$5,000Some power lines were blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$5,000Some trees were knocked down.
April 2003Flash FloodBlytheville$5,000Numerous fields were flooded that required replanting. Many streets were also flooded.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$5,000Some trees were knocked down.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$5,000A light-weight metal carport was blown over. A few trees were knocked down.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$5,000A large tree was blown down on top of a car.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$5,000Some trees and power lines were knocked down.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$5,000no account filed
December 1996LightningBlytheville$5,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$3,000A tree was knocked down on to powerlines on Marr Avenue in Blytheville.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$2,000Tree down at the intersection of 10th and Hearn.
April 2008HailBlytheville$1,500no account filed
June 2008HailBlytheville$1,500no account filed
February 2005HailBlytheville$1,100no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$1,000Large tree uprooted near the intersection of North Franklin and East Moultrie.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$1,000Straight line winds knocked down a large tree at Walnut Street and 2nd Street in Blytheville.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$1,000Some trees were knocked down 4 miles south of Blytheville.
August 2002LightningBlytheville$1,000A shed was damaged by a fire started by lightning.
June 1998FloodBlytheville$1,000Several streets were flooded after nearly 4 inches of rain fell in the area.
June 2006HailBlytheville$1,000no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$1,000no account filed
June 1995HailBlytheville$1,000no account filed
June 2001HailBlytheville$850A cotton crop was damaged by hail which ranged in size from quarters to golf ball.
April 2003HailBlytheville$150no account filed
June 1998HailBlytheville$100Nearly all crops grown between Yarbro and Huffman were totally destroyed by the hail.
April 2003HailBlytheville$100no account filed
April 1998HailBlytheville$100no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$100no account filed
May 1995HailBlytheville$100no account filed
June 2001HailBlytheville$50no account filed
May 1998HailBlytheville$50no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBlytheville$10no account filed
April 2003HailBlytheville$10no account filed
April 2003HailBlytheville$10no account filed
April 2003HailBlytheville$10no account filed
April 2003HailBlytheville$10no account filed
November 2002HailBlytheville$10no account filed
July 2002HailBlytheville$10no account filed
June 2001HailBlytheville$10no account filed
May 2000HailBlytheville$10no account filed
May 2000HailBlytheville$10no account filed
June 1998HailBlytheville$10no account filed
April 1998HailBlytheville$10no account filed
December 1996HailBlytheville$10no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBlytheville-Trees down in downtown Blytheville.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBlytheville-Straight-line winds knocked trees down around town. A fence was damaged by a fallen tree.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBlytheville-A large tree fell on a house.

Every storm recorded in Mississippi County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Mississippi County Courthouse, Chickasawba District0.6 miles1996
Blytheville Commercial Historic District0.6 miles2006
Blytheville Greyhound Bus Station0.8 miles1987
West Main Street Residential Historic District1.1 miles2010
Blytheville Air Force Base Strategic Air Command (SAC) Alert and Weapons Storage Areas Historic District2.7 miles2018
Blytheville Air Force Base Capehart Housing Historic District4.5 miles2015

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000555 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mississippi CountyAll 40 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.