At least the replacement looks nice, it would’ve been so much more insulting if this replaced by a parking lot or some kind of ugly building. I still personally prefer the old one though. The ornamentation on this building is incredible.
Caltuxpebblessays
Such a shame. It was gorgeous.
goharvorgohomesays
We still have our cotton exchange building in St. Louis but it is way worse
zombo09says
What a beautiful building
Fluffy-Citronsays
Funny that gilded age buildings seemed to be demolished at such a high rate. From these big guild hall style buildings to the various millionaire rows across America, feels like everything got demolished by the twenties to either make way for new beaux arts renaissance revival/art deco era buildings or parking lots. Makes you wonder if they were poorly built or if it was seen the same way most people look at Brutalist buildings today.
Edit- Wikipedia marks the style as Second Empire and it was deemed too dangerous to occupy. It was never super popular in the US as a civic style. The replacement is in the Renaissance Revival style. I think what most of us would recognize as Second Empire would be houses built from this time with mansard roofs. The Eisenhower Executive Office Building is from this era and the Second Empire style. It was widely derided by Washington insiders as clashing with the rest of Washington’s architecture and being wildly more expensive with its design and materials than other styles.
Remseey2907says
49 years is a waste of wood and resources
mt-egyptsays
How can a building this glorious only stand for 40 years?
whoiscorndogmansays
It reminds me of the Corn Exchange building in Old City, Philadelphia corn exchange
IhaveCripplingAngst says
At least the replacement looks nice, it would’ve been so much more insulting if this replaced by a parking lot or some kind of ugly building. I still personally prefer the old one though. The ornamentation on this building is incredible.
Caltuxpebbles says
Such a shame. It was gorgeous.
goharvorgohome says
We still have our cotton exchange building in St. Louis but it is way worse
zombo09 says
What a beautiful building
Fluffy-Citron says
Funny that gilded age buildings seemed to be demolished at such a high rate. From these big guild hall style buildings to the various millionaire rows across America, feels like everything got demolished by the twenties to either make way for new
beaux artsrenaissance revival/art deco era buildings or parking lots. Makes you wonder if they were poorly built or if it was seen the same way most people look at Brutalist buildings today.Edit- Wikipedia marks the style as Second Empire and it was deemed too dangerous to occupy. It was never super popular in the US as a civic style. The replacement is in the Renaissance Revival style. I think what most of us would recognize as Second Empire would be houses built from this time with mansard roofs. The Eisenhower Executive Office Building is from this era and the Second Empire style. It was widely derided by Washington insiders as clashing with the rest of Washington’s architecture and being wildly more expensive with its design and materials than other styles.
Remseey2907 says
49 years is a waste of wood and resources
mt-egypt says
How can a building this glorious only stand for 40 years?
whoiscorndogman says
It reminds me of the Corn Exchange building in Old City, Philadelphia corn exchange
phil_the_hungarian says
Why was it demolished?