The Lammert Building

AIA St. Louis is proud to house their Chapter Offices, Bookstore, and The Resource Center in the Lammert Building located off of Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis.  

The Lammert Building History

Originally the Lammert Furniture Building. Built in 1898, the Americanized French Renaissance Revival building, at 911-919 Washington Avenue, was designed by the St. Louis architectural firm of William E. Eames and Thomas C. Young. Constructed bot the Commerce Realty Company, it was leased to the wholesalers Hargadine and McKettrick Drygoods Company until 1923. The building was then bought by the Lammert Furniture Company who renovated the building and completed some alterations to the facade. The Lammert Furniture Company was a well-known wholesale and retail furniture vendor founded in St. Louis in 1861. Due to diminishing downtown sales, the store was closed in 1973, but reopened the next year. The building was designated a City Landmark in 1979 and was renovated in 1984.

-Courtesy of the City of St. Louis website. 

The Lammert Building is currently managed by the Technology Entrepreneur Center Inc., known as T-REX.

About T-REX

T-REX is a non-profit innovation and entrepreneur development center dedicated to strengthening the economic vitality of St. Louis, one startup at a time. Like a magnet, T-REX attracts innovation to our core downtown region. A coworking space, technology incubator, and entrepreneur resource center; we offer an ecosystem where ideas are conceived, brought to fruition, and given room to grow. We’ve worked to create an environment that serves as a network of creativity and support, where abstraction finds clarity in the midst of a collection of bright and dedicated minds. Hovering above a vivacious, animated city, we’re now home to a growing community of well over 400 founders, developers, designers, mentors, educators & more.  

CLICK HERE to learn more about T-REX.