Built St. Louis
Historic Downtown

The Pierce Building
112 N. 4th Street
Built: 1907
Architect: F. C. Bonsak
Status: totally reskinned in 1984 as part of the Adams Mark Hotel.

Left, postcard view circa 1920.
Center: the Pierce Building circa 1977. Planter's Hotel and the Times Building are already gone, replaced by Boatman's Tower at left. Part of the Old Court House is visible at the lower right. Image from Inland Architect, June 1977 issue, p. 12.)
Right: the building as it stands today, altered beyond recognition.

The Pierce Building is actually an E-shaped structure on its east face, rather than the apparent flat slab seen on old postcard views of the west side. By the 1970s, its ornate cornice was long gone. In another decade or so, what remained of its historical integrity would be obliterated as well.

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