Railway Exchange Building (St. Louis)


Railway Exchange Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Railway Exchange Building From Locust Street
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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)
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 finally closed the store in 2013.^[6]

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References

↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "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

Timeline of the tallest buildings in Missouri

Old Courthouse (59 m) (1864)
Union Station (70 m) (1894)
Commerce Trust Building (79 m) (1906)
Railway Exchange Building (84 m) (1914)
925 Grand (91 m) (1921)
Southwestern Bell Building (121 m) (1926)
Kansas City Power and Light Building (145 m) (1931)
One US Bank Plaza (148 m) (1976)
Hyatt Regency Crown Center (154 m) (1980)
AT&T Center (179 m) (1986)
Town Pavilion (180 m) (1986)
One Kansas City Place (198 m) (1988)

Timeline of the tallest buildings in St. Louis

Old Courthouse (59 m) (1864) Union Station (70 m) (1894) Railway Exchange Building (84 m) (1914) Southwestern Bell Building (121 m) (1926) Laclede Gas Building (122 m) (1969) One US Bank Plaza (148 m) (1976) AT&T Center (179 m) (1986) One Metropolitan Square (181 m) (1989)

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