A three-story red brick commercial building, two bays wide. Each bay holds a band of four double-hung windows with transom lights at the upper floors, framed by brick piers, and a small pointed gable with a brick-and-stone diamond rises over each bay at the parapet. The storefront was rebuilt with wide windows and new brick, with an oval Levine Hat sign over the door and a vertical blade sign at the corner reading HAT MFG. CO. The alley side is older-looking and more weathered: segmental-arched windows, some filled with glass block, a steel-shuttered loading door over a small dock, and an iron fire escape climbing to a top floor set back from the rear wall. From the fire escape hangs a battered sheet-metal sign, its hand-painted letters reading LEVINE HATS. The west wall, open to the parking lot, carries a two-story patch of parging with three arched windows near the back, the outline of a lost neighbor.
Built in 1902; the architect is unknown. It carries the earliest date the district inventory gives for this block, from the years when wholesale dry goods and garment houses were filling the avenue west of Twelfth Street. Levine Hat Company has long held the storefront. Built St. Louis calls it the last trace of the old garment district still in business on the avenue.
