Frisco Building

United States historic place


Frisco Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


38°37′43″N 90°11′43″W / 38.62861°N 90.19528°W / 38.62861; -90.19528
Area	less than one acre
Built	1903 (1903)
Architect	Eames & Young
NRHP reference No.	83001046^[1]
Added to NRHP	March 29, 1983

The Frisco Building is a historic office building in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. The building was built in 1903-04 as the headquarters for the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, which was also known as the Frisco. The architecture firm Eames and Young designed the building as well as its 1905-06 addition; the building's subtle ornamentation and its pier and spandrel system were both important developments in skyscraper design. The Frisco occupied the building for almost eighty years after its opening, and in that time played an important role in Missouri's economic development through railroad construction.^[2]

Its expansion forced the Kieselhorst Piano Co., a leading vendor of pianos in the city, to move one block east on Olive Street.^[3]

The Frisco Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 29, 1983.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Frisco Building" (PDF). Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
^ "Music Trade Review: MTR-1929-88-7". mtr.arcade-museum.com. Retrieved 2022-09-06.