Built St. Louis
Historic Downtown

223 N. 7th Street
(American Trust Building)
Built: 1894
Architect: unknown.
Status: reskinned, 1950s; demolished, September 2002.

This unfortunate Victorian-era building suffered a total re-skin in the 1950s, leaving it as the bland Modernist box seen here. It housed a McDonald's on the first floor until the late 1990s. Its original configuration can be seen in a postcard view of the Holland Building, which stood next door. It was torn down in September of 2002 to make way for a parking garage.

Photograph courtesy of Ralph Fuhrhop.