Found this picture



http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman ... num=P04371

I would strongly recommend visiting this site. It's very cool.



Anyway, looked it up:

That same year, construction began for "one of the first fireproof structures in the city"--a seven-story Romanesque Revival office building at the corner of Chestnut and Broadway. Ramsey's Houser Building featured walls of brick and stone with interior framing of steel and hollow tile. Finishes included woodwork of Wisconsin red oak, marble-paved halls, heavy bronze hardware and up-to-date hydraulic elevators with elaborate iron cages. (Built for Daniel M. Houser, the senior proprietor of the Globe Democrat, the building was used as the Annex of the Woodbine Hotel from 1918 to 1943. It was demolished for a parking garage in 1962.)

http://stlouis.missouri.org/501c/landma ... ects6.html



Anyone on this forum old enough to remember this hotel, or heard stories about it? Just curious. Thanks.



Beautiful building. Sometimes I wonder what the leaders in the 60s were thinking (like demolishing this building), and then I see some things they did right (the Arch, Busch Stadium).



This building would probably make beautiful lofts if someone had rehabbed it then.



Another crime:



http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman ... num=P04375

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_ ... St._Louis)

http://stlcin.missouri.org/history/stru ... er_ID=1411

http://www.builtstlouis.net/opos/merchantsexchange.html



Another one: 3137 S Broadway

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman ... num=P04380

This one in about the same spot I believe

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman ... num=P04381



Today:

http://tinyurl.com/c99glv



Spaghetti Factory 8th at Chestnut

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman ... num=P04382



Today

http://tinyurl.com/bt87xb



Garrick Theater:

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman ... num=P04383

http://cinematreasures.org/theater/5436/



Can't seem to find this one, either. Doesn't seem to look quite like Macy's. None of the older buildings at 6th and locust look like it.

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman ... num=P04373

Solved, Equitable Building

http://www.builtstlouis.net/opos/equitable.html

If anybody knows how to get ahold of Robert Powers, he may want to use that picture on builtstlouis, although I'm sure he'll need permission.



Anyway, you can browse that yourself.



Not all are St. Louis pics. Just Missouri in general.

STLCardsBlues1989 wrote:
Anyone on this forum old enough to remember this hotel, or heard stories about it? Just curious. Thanks.

Bonwich?





/kidding

I remember the Woodbine Hotel. My Dad had a part time job there operating the elevator for a short time.