Eames and Young was an American architecture firm based in

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, active nationally, and responsible for several buildings on the

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History

The principals were Thomas Crane Young,

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and William Sylvester Eames,

. Young was born in

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, and came to St. Louis to attend

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, then spent two years at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1880, and briefly worked for the Boston firm of

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. Eames had come to St. Louis as a child, attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, and served as Deputy Commissioner of Public Buildings for the city. They formed a partnership in 1885. Their first works were elaborate mansions for Vandeventer Place and other

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s in St. Louis, which led to an important series of landmark downtown warehouses, later collectively known as Cupples Station. Eames was elected president of the

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in 1904–05. Through the 1900s and 1910s, the firm designed several St. Louis skyscrapers and built a reputation for offices, schools, and institutional buildings constructed nationwide. Eames died in 1915. Young's last building was the colossal 1926 St. Louis Masonic Temple on Lindell, and he quit practice in 1927. Their papers are held by the Art and Architecture Library at

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. Eames was the uncle of American designer Charles Eames.

Work

* Cupples Stations Warehouses, St. Louis, 1892-1915 * Lindell Pavilion, Forest Park, St. Louis, 1892 *

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, Kansas, 1895 * Mississippi Valley Trust (now Schupp Building), St. Louis, 1896 *

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, Georgia, 1902 *

Frisco Building The Frisco Building is a historic office building in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. The building was built in 1903-04 as the headquarters for the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, which was also known as the Frisco. The architecture firm Eames and ...

, St. Louis, Missouri, 1903–04 * Palace of Education, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904 (razed) * The Alaska Building, the first steel-frame high-rise in

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, 1904 * Wright Building, St. Louis, 1906 (later joined to the Arcade Building in 1919) *

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, St. Louis, 1907 * The Josephinum, Seattle, Washington, 1908 * The Hotchkiss Chapel, Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri 1909 *

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, 1910 * United States Customs House, San Francisco, California, circa 1911 *

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, aka the Walker Bank Building,

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, 1912 *

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, aka the Boatmen's Bank Building, 1914 * Masonic Temple, St. Louis, with

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as associate, 1926

References

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