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Name:  Mississippi Valley Trust Building, Former
Year:  1896
Architectural Firm/Architect:  Eames & Young
Standard Architectural Styles:  Beaux Arts Classicism
Front facade:  Stone, ashlar
Property Type Codes:  Bank
Designation: City Landmark, National Register of Historic Places,
Ward:  7
Neighborhood:  35
History:
Mississippi Valley Trust Company financed transportation and communication networks in the St. Louis region, and was a supporter of the St. Louis World´s Fair. It later merged with Mercantile Bank and Trust. [p.21]

The building was vacant through most of the 1930s, and was at one time housed an aircraft company; it has lately been used as a restaurant, then a medical clinic and is now an office building in its latest incarnation.




People
Eames, William S.

Reference
St. Louis Landmarks & Historic Districts

 

 

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