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Q. FW: Inquiry about Cupples Station Warehouses

I have an interest in downtown St. Louis and its architectural history.

After doing a little digging, I discovered the following:

1.) Depending on the source, there were as few as 17 or as many as 20 different Cupples Station warehouses built between 1889 and 1917;
2.) Washington University owned these warehouses for almost 100 years between when they were gifted to the University in 1900 and when they were sold to NationsBank (Bank of America);
3.) While information and pictures about the remaining 8 warehouses are readily available and easy to find, information and pictures on the warehouses that have been demolished are exceedingly difficult to find from public sources.

Given the three points above, I'm reaching out to you to request your assistance in my quest for more information / pictures on the demolished Cupples warehouses -- particularly since Washington University owned them for almost 10 decades.

Answered By: Miranda Rectenwald

Last Updated: Oct 05, 2015 Views: 20

Hello!

I would recommend consulting this book http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b1021316~S2 Cupples Station Terminal : a case study in urban preservation / by Kenneth L. Irons, Jr. This book is available for use at Special Collections on the Washington University Danforth Campus.

University Archives also has a file of newspaper clippings, and brief articles about the history of the property as part of the Building Information Files, http://archon.wulib.wustl.edu/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=380 . This also includes some photographs of the buildings. If you would like to consult these files, they are also available at Special Collections.