A six-story hotel block in the Venetian Italianate style, faced in cream-colored limestone, filling the frontage on Washington Avenue between Sixth and Seventh Streets.
The Lindell Hotel was designed by Thomas Waryng Walsh and opened in 1863 after seven years of construction. Faced in cream-colored limestone on Washington Avenue between Sixth and Seventh Streets, it could accommodate some 1,200 guests and was reckoned among the largest hotels in the country; its opening drew a banquet and ball for thousands. On the night of March 30, 1867, fire broke out on the upper story and spread through the roof and walls, destroying the building. Henry Shaw acquired the salvaged limestone and arranged it as the picturesque Ruins in Tower Grove Park. A second Lindell Hotel, designed by George I. Barnett, was built on the same site and opened in 1874.
