ecology of absence

Lecoutour Brothers Stair Manufacturing Company

LOCATION: 3176 Brannon Avenue; Southwest Garden; Saint Louis, Missouri
DATE OF CONSTRUCTION: 1920s
DATE OF DEMOLITION: July 2005
OWNER: Leo V. Mitchell & Frances E. Pfeifauf

This building once housed the operations of the Lecoutour Brothers Stair Manufacturing Company. According to a website on the historic McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas: "Unlike mail-order companies such as Sears and Montgomery Ward, the Lecoutour Brothers firm specialized in custom-made or 'odd work,' as they termed it for their clients."

In recent years, the building was used by the adjacent Sterling Lacquer Manufacturing Company. The building burned in a spectacular blaze in early May 2005.

Other photographs
  • Burnt factory: Photos by Toby Weiss
  • Photos by Nick Findley


    Photographs from May 20, 2005

         
      
     

    Nearby: Harry S. Truman Restorative Center.


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