Railway Exchange Building (St. Louis)
Railway Exchange Building | |
![]() Railway Exchange Building From Locust Street | |
Location | 600 Locust St., St. Louis, Missouri |
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Coordinates | 38°37′50″N 90°11′22″W / 38.63056°N 90.18944°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1913 |
Built by | Korte Co. |
Architect | Mauran, Russell & Crowell |
Architectural style | Early Commercial |
NRHP reference No. | 09000411[1] |
Added to NRHP | June 11, 2009 |
The Railway Exchange Building is an 84.4 m (277 ft), 21-story high-rise office building in St. Louis, Missouri. The 1914 steel-frame building is in the Chicago school architectural style, and was designed by architect Mauran, Russell & Crowell. The building was the city's tallest when it opened,[2][3] and remains the second-largest building in downtown St. Louis by interior area, with almost 1,200,000 square feet (110,000 m2) of space.
The building was long home to the flagship store of the Famous-Barr chain of department stores — and the headquarters of its parent company May Department Stores — until the brand was bought by Macy's; the store was converted to a Macy's in 2006.[4] Macy's decided to sell the building in 2008[5] and closed the store in 2013.[6]
In January 2017, the building was purchased for $20 million by Hudson Holdings, a National Historic Property Developer based in Delray Beach, Florida.[7][8]
Notable people
- Marie Moentmann (1900-1974), worked at information desk
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Railway Exchange Building". Emporis. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
- ^ "Railway Exchange Building". SkyscraperPage. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
- ^ "Railway Exchange Building". Built St. Louis. Retrieved 2010-02-15.
- ^ Brown, Lisa R. (28 October 2009). "Bruce, Yackey seek TIF for Macy's overhaul". The St. Louis Business Journal. Retrieved 2010-02-15.
- ^ http://www.stltoday.com/business/columns/building-blocks/macy-s-to-close-downtown-st-louis-store/article_a98b2c16-508a-5167-bed2-0b279c249039.html
- ^ Bryant, Tim (31 January 2017). "Developer buys Railway Exchange Building downtown". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
- ^ "Hudson Holdings - National Historic Property Developer". hudsonholdings.com. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
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- Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
- Buildings designated early commercial in the National Register of Historic Places
- National Register of Historic Places in St. Louis
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- Downtown St. Louis
- Chicago school architecture in Missouri
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- 1930 establishments in Missouri
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