A seven-story Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne commercial block at the southeast corner of Sixth and Locust Streets, richly ornamented in terra cotta, with an oriel bay-window tower that rose the full height of the corner and gave the building its name.
The Oriel Building was designed and co-developed in 1889 by Jerome Bibb Legg, who held a 99-year ground lease on the site and partnered with Colonel John O'Day. By the turn of the century it was among downtown's more successful office buildings; ground-floor tenants in the early 1930s included the Lincoln Exchange, D.C. Kelly's Cut Rate Shoes, United Cigar Stores, and Kennedy's furriers. It was later demolished, and the southeast corner of Sixth and Locust is now occupied by non-historic construction.
