Post Exchange and Gymnasium - Jefferson Barracks Historic District - Lemay, MO
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YoSam.
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This is building #65 in the NRHP Listings. This building is outside the current base and belongs to the St. Louis County Parks Department . This was the post exchange and gymnasium.
Waymark Code: WM14WAY
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 08/31/2021
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County of building: St. Louis County
Location of building: Worth Rd., between Hancock Rd, & Sherman Rd., Jefferson Barracks, Lemay
Built: 1905
Architect: Unknown
Architectural Style: Greek Revival
Original Occupant: Post Exchange & Gymnasium
Current Occupant: Missouri Civil War Museum
"65. #17 Post Exchange and Gymnasium. 222 Worth Rd.. 1905 C
Its design. Quartermaster plan 158, was duplicated at other posts around the country. This
building has the most imposing presence of the tum-of the-century buildings no longer
administered by the military. The brick building has a tall, rock-faced, squared stone basement
terminating in a broad ashlar water table. This serves as a base for the six brick pilasters that
mark the comers of the five-bay building and create a temple form for the center three bays,
which break forward under a modillion pediment with a large stone-framed lunette window.
Pilaster bases and capitals as well as window lintels are ashlar stone. Windows are two-over-two, paired in some places. The front door has a classical stone frame with scrolled brackets supporting a pediment. Blind recessed panels are set into the brick below the second-floor
windows. The broad modillion frieze continues around the building, which has three bays to the
sides and a longer four-bay wing to the rear, which accommodates the gymnasium. The frieze
was badly damaged by water and has been restored.
"After the new Mess Hall was constructed in 1912, the Post Exchange function moved to
Building 36, the old mess hall. Exchange functions moved to Building 224 in 1919. The
gymnasium function remained. The Post Exchange was not transferred to St. Louis County
Parks in the initial creation of Jefferson Barracks Park in 1950 but remained the property of the
National Guard until 1988. It had become severely deteriorated by the time the Missouri Civil
War Museum leased it in 2002. Since then, this group has made substantial repairs to the
building looking toward a ten-year restoration plan, with the open date for the public of April
2011." ~ NRHP Nomination Form