An Art Deco bank tower of grey limestone, its shaft rising in setbacks above a three-story base and gathered into vertical piers between recessed windows and gilded terra-cotta spandrels worked in diamond and chevron patterns. The base centers on a monumental round-arched window flanked by low-relief eagles perched on fasces, beneath a carved frieze; SOUTH SIDE NATIONAL BANK OF SAINT LOUIS is lettered in stylized relief over the entrance. A band of carved scallops and stylized foliage runs below the tower. At the summit a freestanding sculpted eagle stands on a torch above panels of Art Deco relief — stars, scrolls, and zigzags — that crown the parapet.
The St. Louis Bank Building & Equipment Company designed the tower, and the South Side National Bank opened at Grand and Gravois in 1928. The bank occupied the building until 2000. A proposal that year to sell the property for demolition and replace it with a drugstore was withdrawn under preservation pressure, and the building was instead converted, around 2007, to condominiums in the tower with retail in the base, its Art Deco banking lobby restored. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
