A seven-story masonry bank building that stood at the corner of Fourth and Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis from 1890 until its destruction by fire in March 1914. The building served as the home of Boatmen's National Bank — Missouri's oldest chartered banking institution — for nearly a quarter century.
Erected in 1890 for Boatmen's National Bank, the building stood at the corner of Fourth and Washington Avenue in the heart of St. Louis's commercial district. Missouri's oldest chartered bank had operated on or near this location for decades, and the 1890 building represented a significant investment in the institution's downtown presence. The architect is not documented in surviving records. On March 8, 1914, fire destroyed the building. With no home for their operations, Boatmen's relocated to the newly completed Monward Building at 300 N. Broadway — a nineteen-story Eames & Young skyscraper that the bank renamed the Boatmen's Bank Building. The bank opened there on November 30, 1914. The site of the original building at Fourth and Washington Avenue was subsequently cleared as part of the broader redevelopment of the downtown riverfront area over the following decades.
