Railway Exchange Building (St. Louis)
- Railway Exchange Building (St. Louis)
The Railway Exchange Building in St. Louis, Missouri is a large, ornamented Chicago Style tower with 22 floors. Built as the Railway Exchange, the building served as the headquarters and the flagship store for Famous-Barr. In 2005 Famous-Barr's parent company May Department Stores was purchased by Federated Department Stores; the store was converted to a Macy's outlet in 2006. The building is connected to the St. Louis Centre mall, which was opened in 1984, and closed in 2006.
Gleaming white terra cotta–182,978 pieces of it–covers all 21 stories of the magnificent Railway Exchange Building. Containing more than convert|1200000|sqft|m2 of office and retail space, the building was the world’s largest office building for many years.
Today Famous-Barr occupies the lower floors of the Railway Exchange as it did when the building opened in 1913. The architect was the St. Louis firm Mauran, Russell & Crowell. Accessible at street-level from all four sides, the store became known as “The Store Without a Back Door.” The upper floors housed the executive offices of major railroad lines, giving the building its name, “The Railway Exchange Building.”
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