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Robert E. Lee Hotel (St. Louis, Missouri)

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Robert E. Lee Hotel (St. Louis, Missouri)
Robert E. Lee Hotel (St. Louis, Missouri)

The Robert E. Lee Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, also known as Auditorium Hotel, Evangeline Home, or Railton Residence, is a Romanesque style building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.It was designed in 1927 by architect Alonzo H. Gentry and was built during 1927–28. It is a 14-story building with a cast concrete structural framework and red brick walls.It was originally opened as the Robert E. Hotel. Purchased by the Salvation Army in 1939 for $1.Later, as Evangeline Booth Home, it provided housing for wives separated from their husbands in active duty in the military during World War II.Named the "Railton Residence" in the 1970s and provided low-income housing.Closed in 2008 for renovations.Its renovation was completed in 2010 and since then it has served as a Salvation Army residence.

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Robert E. Lee Hotel (St. Louis, Missouri)
North 18th Street, St. Louis

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North 18th Street 205
63103 St. Louis
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Washington Avenue Historic District (St. Louis, Missouri)
Washington Avenue Historic District (St. Louis, Missouri)

The Washington Avenue Historic District is located in Downtown West, St. Louis, Missouri along Washington Avenue, and bounded by Delmar Boulevard to the north, Locust Street to the south, 8th Street on the east, and 18th Street on the west. The buildings date from the late 19th century to the early 1920s. They exhibit a variety of popular architectural styles of those years, but most are revival styles or in the commercial style that would later come to be known as the Chicago School of architecture. Most are large multi-story buildings of brick and stone construction, built as warehouses for the St. Louis garment district. Many have terra cotta accents on their facades. After World War II, the decline in domestic garment production and the preference for single-story industrial space led to many of the buildings being vacant or underused due to functional obsolescence. The district includes: Ely and Walker Dry Goods Company Building (1906–07), designed by Eames & Young, now a residential loft building. Lesser-Goldman/Ferguson-McKinney Building (1901) at the northwest corner of Washington and W. 12th, also designed by Eames & Young. It is "A half-block in size and enriched with classical, round arches with voussoirs and keystones, quoins, and a copiously enriched cornice, the building was in keeping with the standards of architectural design of "the great commercial warehouses which are making Washington Avenue a monumental street." The building has piers defining 13 bays on its Washington Avenue facade and nine bays on its Tucker Boulevard facade. It has distinctive quoins. It has several large, round-arched openings with voussoirs. The main entrance, at center of the Washington Ave. facade, is surrounded with terra cotta work and set with a large scrolled keystone. Above, windows are in sets of twos or threes separated by brick mullions or pilaster-like piers. At the seventh story, "the piers curve to form round arches with keystones. Spandrels between the stories are ornamented with scrolled corbels."