A tall brick building on the southeast corner of Nineteenth Street and Washington Avenue, rising three main stories above a raised basement. Steep pedimented gables and dormers break the roofline, and the upper windows are grouped beneath round-arched heads. Projecting pavilions and a corner entrance give the mass a broken, picturesque outline, its brick walls trimmed with stone bands and carved ornament in an elaborate Victorian manner.
This building stood at the southeast corner of Nineteenth Street and Washington Avenue, part of Washington University's downtown campus and its preparatory school, Smith Academy. The university established the academy in 1856 to prepare boys for college and named it Smith Academy in 1879, after one of its principal benefactors. The school remained downtown until Washington University moved west to Forest Park in 1905, when it relocated to a new building on Enright Avenue; the academy closed in 1917. This building was demolished after the university left the district.
