Built St. Louis
Historic Downtown

The Holland Building
215 N. 7th Street
Built: 1896
Architect: unknown.
Status: demolished 1973. Site was a parking lot until a garage went up in 2003.

A whimsical building, the Holland Building appears to have an odd asymetry to its decoration -- until one realizes that the tower and gable roof are what fronts on the building's narrow street frontage, leaving the long faces as the undecorated sides.

Image circa 1970; taken from "This Is Our St. Louis", Harry Hagen, Knight Publishing Co., St. Louis 1970.