Shelton Building

The five-and-dime tenant outlived this address. Wikipedia says S. H. Kress reached Fort Worth in 1905 and in 1936 built a five-story Moderne store at 604 Main, designed by New York architect Edward F. Sibbert, which served the chain until the company moved to the suburbs at the end of 1960. It adds that the building was among the first in Fort Worth with central air conditioning and a vermin-proof refrigerated room for confections. The Kress Building was listed on the National Register in 2007 and converted to downtown housing in 2016.

What the plaque says

Shelton Building This building was constructed in 1900 for Robert G. Johnson, who was acting on behalf of his wards, the children of Albert D. Evans. It was first leased to G.Y. Smith, who opened the "Daylight Store", a general merchandise establishment. In 1910, after the property was purchased by John M. Shelton, a third floor was added to the original two-story structure. From that same year until 1936 the building was leased to S.H. Kress and Company. Following major architectural remodeling in 1937, the structure was occupied by another variety store, McCrorys. (1981)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tarrant County Courthouse — 0.4 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 2.0 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 2.3 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.
• Fort Worth Stockyards — 2.8 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.

More markers nearby

• Fort Worth Library — steps away
• Ephraim Merrill Daggett — steps away
• General William Jenkins Worth (1794-1849) — steps away
• Site of Majestic Theatre — steps away