A ten-story wholesale dry goods warehouse on the northeast corner of Twelfth and Washington, running back along Twelfth Street to Lucas Avenue. A two-story base of plate glass between broad piers carried a tall brick shaft, divided into narrow bays by piers that ran unbroken to the top, with the windows of each floor set in pairs between them. The corner piers were wider and banded with ornament from base to roof, and a large cartouche lettered CARLETON DRY GOODS CO. hung at the corner just above the base. A deep bracketed cornice crowned the building over a frieze pierced by small square windows. Behind the brick was a steel and reinforced-concrete frame, rare on a block otherwise built of heavy timber, and the building made its own power, with engines, dynamos and pressure tanks for its sprinklers.
The Carleton Dry Goods Company, a wholesale house run by the Carleton family, occupied this fireproof warehouse at the west end of the 1100 block of Washington Avenue. Its neighbors to the east were wholesale millinery, shoe and hat houses. Murray Carleton, born in St. Louis in 1885, joined the family firm and later became its president. By 1987 the building was gone; it was not among the buildings of the Washington Avenue: East of Tucker Historic District, which took in the rest of the block.
