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Designed in 1909 by prominent St. Louis architect George D. Barnett, the Mullanphy Tenement was built for the Mullanphy Emigrant Relief Fund to demonstrate that up-to-date apartments could be developed for working-class people in addition to the wealthy, who already enjoyed modern apartment living. Somewhat like a dormitory the building was divided into 60 1 bedroom apartments on three floors. Four sections of the building have 15 apartments grouped around a central stair. From 1965-66 the building also housed the Mullanphy-Webster center, a preschool funded by Webster University.

The building sold for the last time in 1978 (for $9,000!) and has been vacant for over a decade.

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Uploaded on July 5, 2009
Taken on January 17, 2009