Now we come to the Cass Avenue Bank location that has been in the news, which was built in 1927, showing how quickly the institution had grown in twenty-one years. A severe, late Beaux-Arts building, it served as the headquarters of Cass Bank until 1974. This was near the Carr Square and Old North neighborhoods,…
History of Cass Bank, Part One
Perhaps you’ve been watching the news and heard a lot of coverage of the old Cass Bank building being in the crosshairs of demolition, and then at the last second it had been been saved. I thought it would be helpful to readers to explain what is going on. Cass Bank is still in business…
A New Discovery at the Union Trust Building
It’s long been accepted that Adler and Sullivan’s original design of the round windows on the second floor with bearcat terracotta sculptures and a Damascus arch entryway (seen here) for the 1892 Union Trust Building were removed at some point in the early Twentieth Century. However, we now know it was incorrect to believe that…
South 38th Street Between Taft Avenue and Meramec Street
We now turn to South 38th Street, which is just a total mess of architectural styles and years of construction. We see houses that could have been built in the 1890s to the 1950s. We see nice bungalows such as this one below, which might be described as a restrained version of the Gingerbread style….
Dewey Street Between Meramec Street and Taft Avenue
Leaving behind South 37th Street, we move one over to the west and head down Dewey Street, which reveals some more interesting houses. While the first couple of buildings look standard to Dutchtown, now we are confronted with four-families with some very interesting little gables over the windows. There is a wide variety of brick…
South 37th Street Between Bingham Avenue and Meramec Street
Not everything is nice and neat on South 37th Street, however. We were heading north on the street, and all of the sudden the houses go backwards in style by about a decade or so, with the bungalows more typical of Dutchtown to the east of South Grand Boulevard. Whoever built these cornices apparently didn’t…
South 37th Street Between Taft and Bigham Avenues
Back in mid-August, I discovered the peaceful and architecturally rich streets southwest of the intersection of South Grand Boulevard and Meramec Street (you can start looking at those posts here). I came back to explore some more, this time first looking at South 37th Street. Numbered streets west of Jefferson Avenue are a bit rare…
TUMS Factory
I realized I had never photographed the TUMS factory in downtown St. Louis. It is noteworthy for many different reasons. Rob Power of Built St. Louis calls it the first major industrial building in the Modernist style in St. Louis, and I also feel like it has the stylistic underpinnings of the Art-Deco and Streamline…
Former Pet Milk Building
The former Pet, Inc. headquarters building at 400 South Fourth Street was originally built in 1969. It was designed by the supposedly noted architect A.L. Aydelott. When completed, it was 300,000 square feet and cost $7,500,000 to construct. It has now been converted into apartments and rebranded .400, a baseball reference owing to its proximity…
Demolition Continuing Stouffer’s Riverfront Hotel
The demolition of the old Stouffer’s Riverfront Hotel is going along nicely, and this will be my last post about it, as the above photograph could be at twenty stories, ten stories, whatever. It looks the same regardless. According to my calculations, this is now the record holder for the tallest building in St. Louis…