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Cherokee Street Photos > 2608-10Cherokee
Cherokee Street Photos > 2621-2623 Cherokee Street Cherokee Livery This building, originally known as “Cherokee Livery”, was constructed in 1893 for undertaker Paul Buol. The original façade consisted of two large segmental arched bays enclosed with double doors for horse and carriage access. The second story fenestration consisted of eight one over one double sash windows. Buol sold the structure in 1901 to John Ziegenhein, who continued to operate a funeral home at the current location. In 1909 John sold the property to the newly formed corporation, Ziegenhein Brothers Livery and Undertaking, operated by him and his two brothers, Fred and William. In 1915 the Zeigenhein Brothers remodeled the structure with a dark brick façade employing several Tudor Revival elements. A large Tudor arch with terra cotta dripmold, capped with a large foliated finial at the apex emphasized the entrance. All windows on the façade were replaced with paired stained glass windows. The Zeigenhein Brothers continued to operate a successful funeral home at this location until 1941 when the property was sold. Subsequent changes were made to the structure after 1941. The embellished entry and stained glass windows were removed when public sentiment viewed such treatments as gaudy and out of date. The first story elements were replaced by large display windows and retrofitted with exterior insulation and finish systems (EIFS) on the first story mimicking the diamond shaped pattern terra cotta of the 1915 remodel still visible on the second story. Cherokee Station Business Association
Cherokee Street Photos > 2626-2630 Cherokee Street The Hope Building In 1913, The Hope Investment Company commissioned architect Robert G. Kirsch to design a commercial building to occupy this corner. Kirsch was well known for designing several courthouses in Missouri during the turn of the twentieth century. His success in the region prompted Kirsch to move his operations from Milwaukee to St. Louis in 1911. To construct his two-story building, Kirsch hired the Great Western Construction Company and stone mason Harry Jeffrey. Known as The Hope Building, the structure contained several separate stores on the first and second floors. In 1937, The Silver Creek Liquor Company hired architect Leo F. Abrams to alter the exterior and interior of the store. Abrams utilized a modern glazed tile for the remodel of the first story exterior. Converted into a single store, the interior was divided into distinct zones for a restaurant, bar and retail liquor store. For the next sixteen years, a 905 Liquor Store occupied the remodeled space. In 1953, the Cohen Family opened a Globe Self-Service Drug Store in this location. While in operation as a 905 Liquor Store, company owner Morris Multin commissioned Regionalist artist J.B. Turnbull to paint twelve murals for this store. A Day in the Country, produced in 1937, contained seven murals depicting the course of a day in Midwestern agrarian society. One year later, the second set of five paintings, Industrial Missouri, deals with the mining industry in southeastern Missouri. The murals are currently in the collection of Marquette University’s Haggarty Museum in Milwaukee. Cherokee Station Business Association
Cherokee Street Photos > 2638-2642 Cherokee Street The Rathert Building The double lot where this building sits was purchased July 5, 1867 by Dorothea Rathert from Henry Lipphardt. Rathert occupied a dwelling situated at the rear of the double lot before the present building was constructed. Previous to ordinances prohibiting livestock in St. Louis, Rathert earned income from a dairy she maintained on the double lot. The present building was constructed in three phases over nine years. 2638 Cherokee was the first dwelling constructed for Rathert during 1885. This building consisted of a two-story brick structure with a wood cornice capped with a Mansard roof. During 1887 a replica of the 1885 dwelling was constructed to occupy the neighboring lot to the west. After the construction of 2840 Cherokee, Rathert moved into this dwelling and rented her previous home at the rear of the lot. The final portion of the dwelling was a two-story addition constructed in 1894 at the southwest corner of the building. Rosa Weiss, the daughter of Dorothea Rathert, had the first story of the dwelling converted into separate storefronts in 1922. During the conversion, a one-story brick store was added on the west side of the building. A cast iron storefront unified the three separate buildings into single cohesive form. The first businesses to occupy the building were an umbrella company, a shoe store and an optometrist. Cherokee Station Business Association
Cherokee Street Photos > 2639-2641 Cherokee Street The Vandora Theater The Vandora Theater was built in 1909 by the Vandora Amusement Company, and designed by architect Otto J. Boehmer. Boehmer, who was born in Warren County, Missouri in 1858, started his career at the building firm of Joseph B. Goesse & Frederick J. Remmers. In 1893 he started his own architecture and building company. Joseph Van Raalte served as the president of the Vandora Amusement Company, operating the Vandora Theater at this location until 1918. In 1919 the theater was located across the street, at 2640 Cherokee Street, but it closed shortly thereafter. During the same year the architect William Wedemeyer altered the building to commercial use. Throughout the 1920s it was the home of a ladies’ clothing store, and in the 1930s Barney’s Army Goods Store. In 1939 Bernard Lincors Shoes moved into the building, remaining as a tenant until 1984. In 1940 Abraham H. Goodman opened a curtain store in one commercial storefront of the building. The store remained in operation throughout the 1940s, and the floor in front of the entrance still bears his name. Other residents included the Cherokee Outlet Store, which opened in the mid-1950s and closed in 1987. The City of Little Bread, or the Black Bear Bakery, purchased the vacant Vandora Theater in 2004 and renovated the building applying the principles of sustainable design, energy efficiency and re-use of materials. The original floor, below the current wood floor, is raked upwards, a remnant of its original use as a theater. The incline of the floor is visible along the exterior wall of the building. The mezzanine over the entry originally held the moving picture projector. Cherokee Station Business Association
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Cherokee Street Photos > 2646 Cherokee Street Mamroth’s Tailor Shop The original building constructed as a dwelling circa 1883, received several layers of additions as the years progressed. The Bogard family first inhabited the home and lived at this address for over twenty years. Musical instrument manufacture, Charles Menze bought the dwelling in 1905 and remodeled the building four years later to contain a store. Menze operated a musical retail store in the historic building until he sold the property to Abraham Mamroth during the Winter of 1925. Mamroth operated a tailor shop in this building for nearly forty years. The present two story store front was designed by Hubert W. Guth for Abraham Mamroth in 1928. As a teenager, Guth worked as a draftsman for various manufacturing companies and briefly for an architect. His early career consisted of calculating load requirements of structural systems built by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad Company. Versed in engineering and technical drawing, Guth began his own practice designing residential and commercial buildings Glazed terra cotta became a prevalent element for several popular architectural styles during the turn of the twentieth century. The durable material was widely used as an inexpensive approach for building ornamentation. Lacking formal training in architectural design principals, Guth likely selected elements found in popular architecture and incorporated them into his own design. The large amount of modular glazed terra cotta would have been selected by Guth an applied to his simple brick building to give style to the store. Guth did not follow the strict rules of any architectural style. The compilation of various elements resulted in a building exhibiting Guth’s own architectural language. Cherokee Station Business Association
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Cherokee Street Photos > 2701-2703 Cherokee Street Favorite Amusement Company The unimproved property located at this corner was purchased by brothers, Harry and Eugene Freund during the Spring of 1909. Three days later, the Freund’s were granted a building permit to construct a one-story brick odeon designed by William Wedemeyer. An odeon was a small theater typically showing a series of fifteen to twenty minute silent films accompanied by a piano player or organist. Odeons remained hugely popular until the advent of the feature length film in 1915. Adding to the decline of odeons was the construction of larger, more ornate theaters. The Freunds operated the Favorite Amusement Company at this location, showing films until 1917. Previously working with their father, Sigmund, in the clothing retail market, the purchase and the improvements marked the Freund’s first foray in the real estate business on Cherokee Street. Following the construction of 2701-03 Cherokee, the Freund’s constructed several other prominent buildings in the community including the Cinderella Theater and the Casa Loma Ballroom. The former odeon was converted to contain two separate stores. The Freunds leased the eastern portion in 1917 to Jacob Godlove who sold ladies’ furnishings. The western half was occupied by William Trahanas who launched the Cinderella Candy Company in 1919. The Godlove family purchased the building from the Freunds in 1921 and continued to operate a furnishing store at this location for nearly fifty years. During World War II, 2703 Cherokee was incorporated with the Kresge 5 and 10 Cent Store to the west. Cherokee Station Business Association
Cherokee Street Photos > 2710-2716 Cherokee Street The Cherokee Theater This two-story buff brick building was constructed in 1911 on land originally owned by the St. Louis Brewing Association. It was designed by architects F. Alexander Duggan and Claude E. Huff and constructed by local builder William Denham. The building was built and originally owned by Orrin T. Crawford and the Vaudeville Theatre Company. Crawford had made a name for himself as a pioneering local filmmaker, working in Maplewood and Wellston. In the early twentieth century he ran the Gayety Theater, later known as the Crawford Theater, at Fourteenth and Locust in downtown St. Louis. He incorporated the Vaudeville Theater Company in 1910 and opened The Cherokee Theater in this building in 1911. In 1916 Fred Wehrenberg took over the theater operations and it became known as the “New Cherokee Theater”. Wehrenberg and his wife Gertrude had opened their first theater a few blocks east of here at 1953 Cherokee Street in 1906. The following year they opened an airdome, or outdoor theater, next to their grocery store on the northeast corner of Cherokee Street and Jefferson Avenue. In 1910 he constructed the Best Theater on the airdome site. The New Cherokee Theater closed at the end of 1930 and the building was converted to commercial use. The following year the Wehrenberg’s Southside Amusement Company opened the Cherokee Bowling and Billiards on the second floor, which later became Cherokee Q M Bowling Alleys and finally the Cherokee Lanes Bowling Alley. Cherokee Lanes closed around 1962 and the Southside Amusement Company sold the building in 1968. The building is perhaps best known as the home of the Proper Shoe Store, which opened in the building in 1940 and closed in 2002. While other department stores, such as J. C. Penney’s and Fairchild’s, operated for decades on Cherokee Street, Proper Shoe Store is the only one that survived into the 21st century, having been in continuous operation for over sixty years. Also known as “Milton Mandel’s Proper Shoe Store”, the building was also home to Mandel’s Style Shop, which sold women’s clothing during the 1950s and 1960s. Cherokee Station Business Association
Cherokee Street Photos > 2715 Cherokee Historic Photo of this Property: http://cherokeestreetphotos.org/gallery/5027935_WU5jV#309360714_DZCv5
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Cherokee Street Photos > 2724 Cherokee Street The Cherokee Brewing Company Stockhouse The Cherokee Brewing Company was established on Cherokee Street at Iowa Avenue in 1867 by Ferdinand Herold and George Loebs. Utilizing the Cherokee Cave, located below the street, the location was the ideal place for a brewery, as the natural caves were used for the cooling and storing of beer. The systems of caves found throughout this area made it the best neighborhood for breweries such as Cherokee, Lemp, and Anheuser-Busch. The earliest records indicate that Ferdinand Herold sold this parcel of land to the Cherokee Brewing Company in 1877. In 1883 Herold purchased Loebs ownership of the brewery, and became president of the company. By 1885, at the height of the brewery’s success, the facility covered the entire square block between Ohio and Iowa Avenues. The staff of fifty people were producing 3,500 barrels per month of Harold's Superior bottled lager beer, ale and porter. In 1889 the Cherokee Brewery became a part of the St. Louis Brewing Association, an organization made up of fifteen of the large breweries in St. Louis, united under one central management. This four-story brick building was constructed by the brewery as a stock house circa 1890. The brewery closed around 1902, and the St. Louis Brewing Association sold the building the following year. This is the only building remaining from the original Cherokee Brewing Company complex. Later occupants of the building included The New Cherokee Market which was located here from 1920 through the 1940s, the Park Drug Company, and other fabric and shoe stores. Cherokee Station Business Association
Cherokee Street Photos > 2728 Cherokee Street Pfeifer’s Saloon Henry Becker was hired in 1895 by H.E. Pfeifer to construct a two story dwelling and store. Becker had recently completed a building employing similar stylistic elements for Jeremiah Thompson at the northwest corner of Cherokee and Oregon. After completion of the building, John Peters managed a saloon at this location. In 1899, following the street car lines radiating away from the city center, Joseph Pfeifer left his saloon on Poplar Street to take over operations at this location. Pfeifer operated his saloon until the enforcement of the Volstead Act in 1920. This act created a law forbidding the production and sale of alcoholic beverages. Prohibition remained in effect for the next 13 years. Unable to continue his saloon, Pfeifer left this location to conduct a business selling cigars across Cherokee Street at the Cinderella. After Pfeifer’s departure, this location was transformed in 1925 into a jewelry store managed by Roy Dixon. During the early twentieth century, offering credit plans for the purchase of jewelry was fairly uncommon. This revolutionary concept gained popularity and jewelry stores that offered credit plans expanded throughout the commercial districts of the United States. For the following six decades a jewelry store remained in this location. Cherokee Station Business Association
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