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,…
Tag: Modernism
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…
Meramec Street Between Ohio Avenues and South Grand Boulevard, South Side, Dutchtown
I’ve looked at the north side of Meramec Street in Dutchtown extensively, in two groups of posts that start here and here, but I’ve never looked at the south side except here and there with individual buildings. Let’s start at South Broadway and work our way west. Thanks to Found St. Louis, I learned the…
Rukovina Tower, East St. Louis, Abandoned
Back in December of 2019, I had taken stock of the last two towers left after the demolition of two of the Lansdowne Tower pubic housing project. One of the two remaining towers had already been boarded up, but the fourth, the Rukovina Tower, was still occupied. Now both of them are boarded up to…
Mary Brown Center, Lincoln Park, East St. Louis, Revisited
I looked at the Mary Brown Center back in November of 2024, but this time we examined the building more closely. We noted cool little details such as downspouts that emptied into planters, which sadly were weed-choked, but I could imagine if planted with flowers must have looked great. Also, we examined the roof of…
Roofless Church, New Harmony, Indiana
I wouldn’t say I’m a huge fan of Phillip Johnson. There’s that whole Nazi problem, and the fact that a lot of his work just isn’t that good. The General American Life Insurance Building (now Spire) in downtown St. Louis is pretty cool, though. But we discovered the Roofless Church at New Harmony, and it’s…
End of Corpus Christi, Jennings
“That’s weird,” I remarked as we headed up Jennings Station Road to check up on the old factory on Xograph Avenue, “we should be seeing an old church I check up on occasionally.” After our visit to Xograph Avenue, we came back to the site of the former Corpus Christi Church, which I first visited…
Demolitions Coming, Former Marillac College
UMSL is planning on demolishing some of its buildings on the south side of campus, many of which I have documented before. On the chopping block is the building above, the former Franciscan monastery which I looked at back in June of 2011; it has spectacular stained glass windows which I assume will go in…
Former Christian Hospital, Abandoned
I looked at the former Christian Hospital back in October of 2021 when it had turned into the Prince Hall Senior Services building, and it looked perfectly fine. But now it’s abandoned and totally trashed! What the heck happened?