Banker's Lofts

The building at 901 Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis is known today as Bankers Lofts. Historic building references identify it as the Mallinckrodt Building, designed by the architectural firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge in 1892, and originally constructed as a dry goods warehouse.

In 1940, the building was converted from warehouse use to banking use. Historic summaries of the property state that it later operated as the Bank of St. Louis beginning in 1951, before standing vacant through much of the 1990s during the long decline and early redevelopment era of Washington Avenue.

The property was finally brought into the wave of downtown residential rehabilitation in the early 2000s. Sources indicate that renovation began in 2003, after which the building reopened as Bankers Lofts, a seven-story condominium building with 64 loft units that retained industrial and historic features such as heavy timber elements, concrete floors, and large windows.