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One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Phipps-Wallace Store Building
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Phipps--Wallace Store Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 312-316 N. Eighth St., St. Louis (Independent City), 63101
- When was it listed? November 2000
- Category. building
- Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture, Neoclassical architecture
- Architect. Alfred Rosenheim
- National Register reference number. 00001398 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Phipps-Wallace Store Building in 2011, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 December 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 79TH |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 64 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 64 workings within 5 miles of Phipps-Wallace Store Building: 60 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Sauget Zinc Refinery | Zinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid | Plant | ||
| Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 1 | Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Hypothetical Lead Mine | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, Cadmium | Prospect | Underground | |
| Madison Plant | Thorium | Producer | ||
| Pfizer Inc. Mineral Pigments | Iron | Producer | ||
| Parker-Russell Fireclay Mine | Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal | Past Producer | ||
| Tole and Thorp Fireclay Mine | Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal | Past Producer | ||
| Guelker Mine Number Four | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Hydraulic Press Brick Co Mine No 3 | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Hydraulic Press Brick Co Mine No 4 | Clay | Past Producer |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lennox Hotel | under 500 feet | 1984 |
 | Hotel Statler | under 500 feet | 1982 |
 | Mayfair Hotel | under 500 feet | 1979 |
 | Arcade Building | under 500 feet | 2003 |
 | American Theater | under 500 feet | 1985 |
 | Hargadine-McKittrick Dry Goods Building | under 500 feet | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00001398 in Record Group 79. |
| St. Louis County | All 663 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.