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Frisco Building

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architect
  
Eames & Young

Added to NRHP
  
March 29, 1983

Built
  
1903 (1903)

NRHP Reference #
  
83001046

Frisco Building

Location
  
906 Olive St., St. Louis, Missouri

The Frisco Building is a historic office building in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. The building was built in 1903-04 as the headquarters for the St. Louis – San Francisco Railroad, which was also known as the Frisco. The architecture firm Eames and Young designed the building as well as its 1905-06 addition; the building's subtle ornamentation and its pier and spandrel system were both important developments in skyscraper design. The Frisco occupied the building for almost eighty years after its opening, and in that time played an important role in Missouri's economic development through railroad construction.

The Frisco Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 29, 1983.

References

Frisco Building Wikipedia