| Kress Building | |
| Coordinates: | 38.9519°N -92.3256°W |
| Architect: | likely Julius H. Zeitner and Seymour Burrell[1] |
| Architecture: | two-part commercial |
| Added: | March 9, 2005 |
| Area: | less than one acre |
| Mpsub: | Downtown Columbia, Missouri MPS |
| Refnum: | 05000122 |
The Kress Building, also known as Kress Wholesale Company Store and Mehornay Furniture Store, is a historic commercial building located in downtown Columbia, Missouri. It was built in 1910 for the S. H. Kress & Co., and remodeled in 1946 when it became Mehornay Furniture. It is a tall two-story, brick building with an open storefront topped by horizontal metal banding, that consists of large plate glass windows.[2]
It operated as a furniture store from 1946 until 1979-80. It was again renovated in 2005.[3] Post-renovation it became the home of the Penguin Piano Bar in 2005 on the ground floor and Roxy’s in 2015 on the 2nd floor.[4] Both went out of business in 2020 due to the closures during the covid-19 pandemic.[5]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.