Railway Exchange Building

600 Locust St., St. Louis, Missouri. County/parish: St. Louis.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 11, 2009. NRIS 09000411.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Famous--Barr Building
  • May Company Building

From Wikipedia:

Railway Exchange Building (St. Louis)

The Railway Exchange Building is an 84.4 m (277 ft), 21-story high-rise office building in St. Louis, Missouri. The 1914 steel-frame building is in the Chicago school architectural style, and was designed by architect Mauran, Russell & Crowell. The building was the city's tallest when it opened, and remains the second-largest building in downtown St. Louis by interior area, with almost 1,200,000 square feet (110,000 m2) of space.

The building was long home to the flagship store of the Famous-Barr chain of department stores — and the headquarters of its parent company May Department Stores — until Macy's purchased the brand; the store was rebranded as Macy's in 2006. Macy's sold the building in 2008 and closed the store in 2013.

In January 2017, Hudson Holdings, a National Historic Property Developer based in Delray Beach, Florida, purchased the building for $20 million.

The city of St. Louis was granted an emergency condemnation on 4 Jan 2023, and proceeded to kick out people who appeared to be squatting and board up the building.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63820955

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