The Chouteau Building is a seven-story Renaissance Revival office block of red brick over a limestone base, standing at the eastern gateway to the Grove. Its shaft rises in a regular grid of windows between brick piers, and a broad limestone entablature caps the top floor — a dentil course beneath deep bracketed cornice blocks and a low brick parapet with corner chimneys. The rusticated stone ground floor carries the storefront windows and the main entrance, whose lintel is incised CHOUTEAU BUILDING. The long brick elevations, plain but for stone belt courses, front Chouteau Avenue, with Hemp Avenue running along the west side.
The Chouteau Building was completed in 1921 at 4030 Chouteau Avenue, at the eastern gateway to the Grove. Designed by the architect Norman B. Howard, the seven-story office building was the tallest in this commercial district west of downtown, and it stood at the meeting of three streetcar lines that then carried much of the area's daily traffic. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and it now houses medical and non-profit offices.
