Railway Exchange Building (St. Louis)

Railway Exchange Building
Railway Exchange Building From Locust Street
Location 600 Locust St., St. Louis, Missouri
Coordinates 38°37′50″N 90°11′22″W / 38.63056°N 90.18944°W / 38.63056; -90.18944Coordinates: 38°37′50″N 90°11′22″W / 38.63056°N 90.18944°W / 38.63056; -90.18944
Area less than one acre
Built 1913 (1913)
Built by Korte Co.
Architect Mauran, Russell & Crowell
Architectural style Early Commercial
NRHP reference # 09000411[1]
Added to NRHP June 11, 2009

The Railway Exchange Building is a 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]

References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Railway Exchange Building". Emporis. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
  3. ↑ "Railway Exchange Building". SkyscraperPage. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
  4. ↑ "Railway Exchange Building". Built St. Louis. Retrieved 2010-02-15.
  5. ↑ Brown, Lisa R. (28 October 2009). "Bruce, Yackey seek TIF for Macy's overhaul". The St. Louis Business Journal. Retrieved 2010-02-15.
  6. ↑ http://www.stltoday.com/business/columns/building-blocks/macy-s-to-close-downtown-st-louis-store/article_a98b2c16-508a-5167-bed2-0b279c249039.html
  7. ↑ Bryant, Tim (31 January 2017). "Developer buys Railway Exchange Building downtown". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  8. ↑ "Hudson Holdings - National Historic Property Developer". hudsonholdings.com. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
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