A five-story building at Grand and Finney combined Renaissance Revival massing with an ornate stone facade: round-arched window bays framed by carved panels and pilasters ran across the upper floors, capped by a bracketed cornice. Ground-floor storefronts, including a piano dealer's showroom, opened directly onto the sidewalk beneath the main block. A steel fire escape zigzagged up the building's north side. The structure's public hall, known as the Odeon, seated roughly 3,000 for concerts and theatrical performances.
The building at Grand Avenue and Finney Avenue was erected in 1904 as a Masonic Temple, housing St. Louis Masonic lodges on its upper floors above a ground-floor row of commercial storefronts. Its public hall carried the name Odeon from at least 1904, hosting concerts and theatrical programs alongside the building's fraternal use. The Masons occupied the building until 1926, when they relocated to the newly built New Masonic Temple on Lindell Boulevard. After that move, the Grand and Finney building operated publicly as the Odeon Theatre, and for a period the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra called it home before relocating to the Opera House around 1934. Fire damaged the building in 1927, destroying its top two floors, and a second fire struck in 1935. Following that second fire, the 3,000-seat theater was razed; the sources found don't confirm an exact demolition year. Central High School, demolished in 1927, stood one block away on the same intersection.
