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Name:  Ferguson Building
Address:  Fifth and Pine Streets
Date of Demolition:  Unknown
 Architectural Firm/Architect:  Lee and Annan
Front facade:  Iron, cast
Property Type Codes:  Commercial building, Central Business District cast iron
Ward:  7
Neighborhood:  35
History:
Built in the 1870s, this building was first occupied by F.W. Humphery and Company clothing store. The four-story, brick structure had a cast-iron facade, with large glazed bays at the storefronts and a more pretentious and academic design for the upper stories. The cast iron facades were highly ornamented, using classical Doric, Ionic and Corinthian half-columns in ascending order with large arched window openings. At the taller fourth story, the columns were set on piers with balustrades between them. The building was topped by a full entablature which featured a lavishly foliated frieze [117, 118].




People
Annan, Thomas B.
 Lee, Francis D.
 Lee and Annan,


Reference
Architectural Heritage of St. Louis, 1803-1891

 

 

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