Board of Education building - Downtown St Louis, Missouri

The Board of Education Building, located at the northwest corner of Locust & North 9th Streets in St. Louis, Missouri, stands in the midst of a major downtown commercial area, one that is dominated by tall, primarily brick buildings, which are currently used for a variety of retail stores & offices. It is also located on the northwest corner of the historic Post Office Square, which includes such other historic properties as the Old Post Office, the Mayfair Hotel, the new Convention Center Hotel, the American Theater, the Chemical Building, and the Paul Brown Building (all NRHP listings except the Convention Center Hotel). Designed in 1891 by noted architect Isaac S. Taylor and completed in 1893, the seven-story, commercial building encompasses most of the lot and abuts the public sidewalks on both primary elevations. The structural support system of the building is a cast iron & steel framing system with masonry load bearing walls. Built of brown Lake Superior sandstone, Missouri red granite, and buff-colored brick, it is a superb example of the Romanesque Revival style of architecture, popular between 1840 & 1900.

The building served as the school board's offices from its completion in 1893 until the board moved in August of 2000. While directing the St. Louis Public Schools' operations from this building, especially in its first two decades, the administration became a model for the nation, modernizing its administration to apply to a rapidly growing urban area and curbing the corruption that had plagued its operations. This is also the building that the St. Louis Board of Education would face the tumultuous era of the civil rights movement and the efforts to desegregate the area's schools in the 1960's. For these reasons, this building was determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under the area of criterion A, Education. The Board of Education Building is also the oldest extant location of the St. Louis Public Library, which was housed here between 1893 & 1908. As such, the building is also significant under criterion A, Social History, since it was during this time that the library was being transformed into a free public library. It was also during this period that the library experienced such rapid growth that would result in the construction of its own building, the Central Branch of the St. Louis Public Library that is still in use today.

The Board of Education Building was added to the NRHP on January 12, 2005. All the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here: catalog.archives.gov/id/63821016

Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.

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Taken on: September 4, 2022

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Camera:	Nikon D7200
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