Update: Renovated into the Angad Arts Hotel, which opened in November of 2018.
Last used as the headquarters of the St. Louis health department, the old Missouri Theater Building is now being rehabbed into a blues club and apartments. It’s the last major building in Grand Center to be redeveloped, and will certainly enliven Grand Boulevard in this stretch. Now to fill in the vacant lots.
Way back, it always seemed that every doctor and orthodontist and dentist, etc., in STL had an office in that building.
I recall going there as a 7-year old, and overjoyed thinking we were going to go to the BIG show – only to be chargrined and taken to the side door to visit the optometrist waaay up high.