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Name:  Fur Exchange, International
Address:  2-14 South Fourth Street
Year:  1919
Architectural Firm/Architect:  George W. Hellmuth
Standard Architectural Styles:  Classic Revival
Front facade:  Terra Cotta
Property Type Codes:  Warehouse
Designation: National Register of Historic Places
Ward:  7
Neighborhood:  35
History:
"In 1919, on the heels of two world record-breaking fur auctions in St. Louis, construction began on a new seven-story commercial warehouse building designed to house the display rooms and auction room of the International Fur Exchange. Completed in 1920 on a prominent downtown site just four blocks west of the Mississippi River, the building cost an estimated $750,000. George W. Hellmuth, a notable St. Louis architect, designed the Exchange. It boasted, "the world´s largest raw fur exchange, with unexcelled lighting facilities" for examining goods, as well as offering buyers the convenience of viewing pelts and bidding in the same building." [From the nomination to the National Register of Historic Places as prepared by Mary M. Stiritz and Cynthia Hill Longswich, December, 1997.]



International Fur Exchange Building

 

 

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