So so so sad and frustrating. I've been trying to document the old buildings along the north riverfront off and on since 2006. This was definitely one of my favorites. I have many photos on my Flickr site http://www.flickr.com/mec_stl. Please reach out if you'd like to use any in subsequent articles, I'd be glad to help.
A sad story. This has happened here in Winnipeg with some of our historic buildings, though most of them have happily been repurposed for new ventures. This building easily could have been as well.
Thank you for putting this together. My husband is a direct descendant of the St. Louis Shapleighs (his grandfather's first name was even Shapleigh,) and I've just started digging into the history of the family during that time. I guess I was just a little late to see these in person.
Such a shame, it looked to be a beautiful building and it was on the historic list. From the exterior it looked fundamentally sound. I'm in Philadelphia and a building like this would've been bought & repositioned into multifamily or artist studios however St. Louis has been in decline for decades with no rebound in sight hence why this wasn't scooped up by developers.
Some pictures from Saturday afternoon https://www.threads.net/@stevestruemph/post/C25f5M6PSC6/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Thank you for writing this
Norvell wrote an outstanding memoir:
https://archive.org/details/forty-years-of-hardware
I found this interesting as my grandfather worked for both Simmons and Shapleigh hardware
So so so sad and frustrating. I've been trying to document the old buildings along the north riverfront off and on since 2006. This was definitely one of my favorites. I have many photos on my Flickr site http://www.flickr.com/mec_stl. Please reach out if you'd like to use any in subsequent articles, I'd be glad to help.
A sad story. This has happened here in Winnipeg with some of our historic buildings, though most of them have happily been repurposed for new ventures. This building easily could have been as well.
Thank you for putting this together. My husband is a direct descendant of the St. Louis Shapleighs (his grandfather's first name was even Shapleigh,) and I've just started digging into the history of the family during that time. I guess I was just a little late to see these in person.
Such a shame, it looked to be a beautiful building and it was on the historic list. From the exterior it looked fundamentally sound. I'm in Philadelphia and a building like this would've been bought & repositioned into multifamily or artist studios however St. Louis has been in decline for decades with no rebound in sight hence why this wasn't scooped up by developers.