International Shoe Company Building (The Last Hotel St. Louis), Washington Avenue and 15th Street, St. Louis, MO
Built in 1910, this Sullivanesque and Chicago School-style building was designed by Theodore C. Link to serve as the home of the Roberts, Johnson and Rand Shoe Company, which later became part of the International Shoe Company. The building features a limestone-clad exterior with a terra cotta cornice and column capitals, one-over-one double-hung windows, chamfered engaged columns, rectilinear corner pilasters, storefronts with decorative copper spandrels at the base, a large vertical blade sign mounted on the facade, and an art deco stone facade at the main entrance to the upper floors of the building, which was added during a renovation in the early 1930s. The building is a contributing structure in the Washington Avenue Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, and has been rehabilitated for adaptive reuse as The Last Hotel St. Louis.
International Shoe Company Building (The Last Hotel St. Louis), Washington Avenue and 15th Street, St. Louis, MO
Built in 1910, this Sullivanesque and Chicago School-style building was designed by Theodore C. Link to serve as the home of the Roberts, Johnson and Rand Shoe Company, which later became part of the International Shoe Company. The building features a limestone-clad exterior with a terra cotta cornice and column capitals, one-over-one double-hung windows, chamfered engaged columns, rectilinear corner pilasters, storefronts with decorative copper spandrels at the base, a large vertical blade sign mounted on the facade, and an art deco stone facade at the main entrance to the upper floors of the building, which was added during a renovation in the early 1930s. The building is a contributing structure in the Washington Avenue Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, and has been rehabilitated for adaptive reuse as The Last Hotel St. Louis.