J. C. Penney Co. Warehouse Building (St. Louis, Missouri)

United States historic place


J.C. Penney Co. Warehouse Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	400 S. 14th St., St. Louis, Missouri
Coordinates	38°37′27″N 90°12′7″W / 38.62417°N 90.20194°W / 38.62417; -90.20194
Area	1.7 acres (0.69 ha)
Built	1928-1929
Architect	Miller, John F.; Starrett Bros.
NRHP reference No.	98001563
Added to NRHP	December 31, 1998

The J. C. Penney Co. Warehouse Building, formerly also known as Edison Brothers Warehouse Building, and now Edison Condominiums, is a historic warehouse building in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. The building now serves as a condo-hotel.

History

The building was constructed in 1929 as a warehouse for the J.C. Penney retail chain. It occupied the building until 1954, after which it was donated to the University of Missouri as a location for an education center, which never materialized. In 1967, the university leased the warehouse to Edison Brothers Stores, which used it as a warehouse for its retail operations until 1994. In 1983, the company commissioned muralist Richard Haas to paint a trompe-l'œil mural on three sides of the building that mimicked architectural stonework, using themes derived from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

The building reopened in 2001 after a $54 million renovation as a combination of condominiums and the Sheraton St. Louis City Center hotel. The hotel left Sheraton in 2014 and was unbranded until 2018, when it became a Red Lion Hotel. It closed in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and reopened in 2022 as an OYO Hotel. It is set to be renovated, at a cost of $46 million, and will regain its Sheraton flag.

References

"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
"400 S. 14th Street (J.C Penney/Edison Brothers Warehouse)". What That Was. 2014-01-27. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
"Edison Brothers Building, Trompe L'Oeil Mural, 400 Fourteenth Street, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
Jacob Barker (2018-03-02). "St. Louis City Center Hotel to become Hotel RL". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
"Downtown St. Louis hotel with World's Fair mural is set for renovation and rebranding". 22 August 2023.

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Divisions	The Treasury (1962–1981) Thrift Drug (1968–1997) Eckerd (1997–2004)
People	Ron Johnson James Cash Penney Mike Ullman
Buildings	J. C. Penney Building (Anchorage, Alaska) J. C. Penney Building (Newberg, Oregon) J. C. Penney Building (St. Louis, Missouri) J. C. Penney Building (Shoshone, Idaho) J. C. Penney Building (Tucson, Arizona) J. C. Penney Historic District J. C. Penney House

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