Wright Building

  • Eames & Young Architectural Photography Collection
  • Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library 
  • Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library Special Collections
  • Eames & Young Collection
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Title
Wright Building
Creator
  • Eames & Young [LCNAF]
Collecting Area
  • Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library
Collection Name
  • Eames & Young Architectural Photography Collection
  • Eames & Young Collection
  • Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library Special Collections
Description
Building location/address: Missouri, St. Louis, 207 N. 8th Street 63101; Built on the site of the Louis H. Benoist mansion, the Wright Building was designed by Eames &Young of St Louis in 1906. The discovery of quicksand on the neighboring site selected for the Arcade Building required that that building be redesigned. Plans for the Arcade Building were drawn and then redrawn by Tom P. Barnett and engineer Fred C. Taxis to accommodate the additional floors required to provide income and offset the costs of the required foundation. Completed in 1918, the Arcade Building (a designated City Landmark determined eligible for National Register listing) includes a Gothic Revival arcade of singular beauty and stunning street front shop windows. Both the basement and sub-basement with columns supported on caissons driven fifty feet into bedrock were designed to provide direct access from the Arcade Building into the Eads Bridge tunnel railroad. [from the Landmarks Association of Saint Louis]Mounted on black construction paper with linen backing; mounted caption in black ink: LOBBY, WRIGHT BUILDING, ST. LOUIS, MO.