The Chippewa Trust Company Building is located at 3801-05 South Broadway in St. Louis, Missouri. This building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 12, 2010. It was built solid.
The architectural style of this building is Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Beaux Arts and Modern Movement: Art Deco. The foundation is stone and limestone and the walls are stone, limestone, and stucco. The architect was W. G. Knoebel.
Backstory
The Chippewa Trust building was constructed in 1928, four years shy of being a century old. The site itself has been the location of a bank for over a century. In 1905, another bank building was constructed at the same site under the identical name of Chippewa.
Architect Knoebel was with the St. Louis Bank Building and Equipment Corporation (BBEC), a design and construction firm based in St. Louis. In 1956, some modernization of the building involved the construction of a drive-through banking wing in the rear that has since been removed.
After the city’s streetcar system was developed, South Broadway became a busy thoroughfare into the early 1900s. Before that, there was the cable car service that followed horse-drawn streetcars. Commercial buildings were going up at intersections including South Broadway and Chippewa.