A one-story Art Deco substation on the east side of North 15th Street, just north of Lucas Avenue. The front is faced in large blocks of buff terra cotta and divided into five tall bays, each filled with a dark metal grille in a pattern of interlocking chevrons. Stepped, fluted crests rise above the parapet over each bay, and small lamps are mounted on the piers between them. At street level the terra cotta steps down into a black marble-aggregate base, and the center bay holds the entrance, numbered 710. The side walls are plain buff brick. The rear has tall steel-sash windows, a large loading door and a raised block at one corner.
Built in 1930 by the Union Electric Company as its 15th Street power substation, to the design of Klipstein and Rathmann. It went up the same year as the International Shoe Company annex across the street. A six-story loft of 1907 at 1421-25 Lucas once shared the block, and its demolition left the substation the only building there. It now houses the Europe nightclub.
