A nine-story concrete-frame factory and warehouse at the southwest corner of Washington and 17th, ten bays on Washington and eight on 17th Street. Cream glazed terra cotta covers the piers and spandrels around triple windows, worked with shells, bound sheaves of wheat, caducei and foliage. Banded terra cotta piers frame the storefronts of the two-story base, and the entrance at 1706 sits beneath a sculpted frieze centered on a cartouche. A bracketed cornice caps the base. The end bays are red brick framed by terra cotta quoins, with one window to a floor and a round-arched window at the top. The piers rise to round arches over the ninth-floor windows beneath a crowning cornice. The rear wall on the alley is plain red brick.
Designed by Albert B. Groves and built in 1910 for the Monogram Realty Co., which gave the building its name. The Rosenthal-Sloan Millinery Co. signed on as tenant before construction began. Groves took bids on an eight-story plan, and the permit, issued to the contractors Beach M. and C. Co., valued the building at $483,000 on a lot running through from Washington to St. Charles Street. The building later served as headquarters of CPI Corp., the portrait studio company. After CPI left, Revive Capital Development converted it to 168 apartments as Monogram on Washington, and the terra cotta facade was restored in 2016–18.
