Built St. Louis
Historic Downtown

The Title Guaranty Building (originally the Lincoln Trust)
N. Street
Built: 1898
Architect: Eames and Young
Status: demolished April 1983; now the site of the Gateway One building.

One of the centerpieces of St. Louis's outstanding Real Estate Row. Today the sleek, bland Gateway One Building stands on the Title Guaranty's former site... surrounded by largely unused and unloved green space.

Salvaged ornament from the building is on display at the City Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and St. Louis's Sheldon Hall.

Locator Map


Image from the building files of the St. Louis Public Library.


Buder Building, Title Guaranty Building, Wainwright. Postcard view circa 1900.


Left to right: Buder Building, Title Guaranty Building, Wainwright, Demunil (with the original Mark Twain Hotel behind), another unknown with the Wright behind it, and the Holland Building. View circa 1970; courtesy of James Sutton.)

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Image notes:
1 - Image from the building files of the St. Louis Public Library.
2 - Postcard view circa 1970.
3 - Image from the Historic American Buildings Survey (background of an image of the Wainwright Building.)
4 - Surviving ornament on display at the City Museum, St. Louis.
5 - Surviving ornament on display at the Chicago Institute of Art.
6 - Surviving ornament on display at Sheldon Memorial Concert Hall.