The Oriel Building was a 7-story commercial office building on the southeast corner of 6th and Locust Streets, designed by and co-developed by Jerome Bibb Legg in 1889. Legg held a 99-year ground lease and partnered with Col. John O'Day to develop it. The Landmarks Association describes it as "one of the most successful office buildings in downtown" by the turn of the century. The MHS photograph from December 1931 (taken by W.C. Persons) shows a richly ornamented Romanesque Revival/Queen Anne commercial building with a distinctive oriel bay-window tower rising the full height of the corner — giving the building its name. Ground-floor tenants visible in the 1931 photo include Lincoln Exchange, D.C. Kelly's Cut Rate Shoes, United Cigar Stores, and Kennedy's (furs). The building has since been demolished; the SE corner of 6th and Locust is now surface-level or non-historic.
