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The Demenil Building
119 N. 7th Street
Built: 1894
Architect: Isaac Taylor & Oscar Enders
Status: Demolished 1976 to make room for additions to the Wainwright.

Built immediately on the heels of the Wainwright, this was a finely composed building in its own right. Its destruction was part of the complete obliteration of the historical context that accreted around the Wainwright in the decades immediately after its construction.

 

ABOVE LEFT: Demenil Building, foreground at right; Wainwright at center; Buder Building at left. Image from the February 1976 issue of HUD Challenge.
ABOVE RIGHT: Demenil Building's place in Real Estate Row. Image from the Globe-Dispatch.
RIGHT: Image from the Historic American Buildings Survey, from the background of a photograph of the Wainwright. The Holland Building's ornate penthouse is visible at top.

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