Lafayette Square is a productive place for taking stock of various architectural styles that cycled through America between 1860 and the present. Walking around this compact district reveals meticulously restored examples of French Second Empire, Italianate, Greek Revival, Federal, and even Flounder styles.
One type of exterior trend, Art Deco, has only one example I’m aware of in the Square, but it’s a beauty. It presides from along Chouteau at the foot of Dolman Street. Here is home to the Eden Lofts apartments.
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