Mallinckrodt Building

A seven-story Renaissance Revival loft at the northwest corner of Ninth and Washington. A rusticated two-story base, faced in green marble at the ground floor, carries a four-story shaft of buff brick piers with recessed spandrels in terra cotta, among them panels bearing the Medici coat of arms. The attic story is a row of paired round-arched windows edged in terra cotta and set off by medallions. The projecting cornice has been removed. The Lucas Avenue side repeats the brick piers and terra cotta spandrels.

Edward Mallinckrodt, the second-generation St. Louis German who headed the Mallinckrodt Chemical Company, built this loft as his first speculative real estate venture, to plans drawn by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge in 1892. It was a dry goods warehouse, and its Renaissance Revival front was the first of its kind on Washington Avenue. In 1940 the building was converted to banking use, and from 1951 it was the Bank of St. Louis. It stood vacant through the 1990s, one of the last empty buildings on the avenue, until renovation began in 2003. It reopened as Banker's Lofts.