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One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
United Shoe Machinery Building
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 2200-2208 Washington Ave., St. Louis (Independent City), 63103
- When was it listed? June 2007
- Category. building
- Architectural style. modern architecture
- National Register reference number. 07000619 - 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
3 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of United Shoe Machinery Building between 2006 and 2011, burning about 1 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 | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 17 December 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 79TH |
| 9 October 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 87 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 87 workings within 5 miles of United Shoe Machinery Building: 81 past producers, 4 producers, 1 plant, 1 prospect. 5 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 | ||
| Delore Barite Mill | Barium-Barite | Producer | ||
| Hypothetical Lead Mine | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, Cadmium | Prospect | Underground | |
| Krummel and Buchner Mine | Coal, Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| 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 | ||
| Evans and Howard Fireclay Mine No 7 | Fire Clay (Refractory) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Martin Shaughnessy Building | under 500 feet | 2005 |
 | Halsey-Packard Building | under 500 feet | 2005 |
 | Berry Motor Car Service Building | under 500 feet | 2010 |
 | Saint Louis Provident Association Building | under 500 feet | 2001 |
| Olive and Locust Historic Business District | under 500 feet | 2007 | |
 | Elias Haas Building | under 500 feet | 2006 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 07000619 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.