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Security Building
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National Register of Historic Places

Security Building

On the National Register since 200026 years
Classical RevivalListed 2000St. Louis

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About Security Building

Security Building, at 319 N. Fourth St., was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Feb 10, 2000. The Register lists it for its architecture, at the local level. It describes its style as Classical Revival, as it does for 132 other Missouri listings. 21 more Register listings are within a quarter mile.

What it isBuilding in Missouri. From Wikidata (CC0). Read about it on Wikipedia ↗

PDFRead the original nominationThe form that put it on the Register, with its history, photos and a map · 35 MB · National Archives↗
Through the years

1892 to today

  1. 1892Built, designed by Peabody and Stearns
  2. 2000Added to the National Register of Historic Places
  3. 2026On the Register for 26 years
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319 N. Fourth St., St. Louis · about 0.2 miles on foot, as the crow flies

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66 more Register listings within half a mile

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★Wainwright BuildingBuilding0.3 miBGeneral American Life Insurance Company National HeadquartersModern Movement0.3 miBMaryland HotelLate 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals0.3 mi★U.S. Customhouse and Post OfficeSecond Empire0.3 miBCentury Building and Syndicate Trust BuildingBeaux Arts0.3 miBScruggs-Vandervoort-Barney WarehouseCommercial0.3 miBLeacock Sporting Goods Company BuildingBuilding0.3 miBArcade BuildingGothic Revival0.3 miBAmerican TheaterBeaux-Arts Classicism0.3 miBPaul Brown BuildingRenaissance Revival0.3 miBHotel StatlerVictorian Eclecticism0.3 miBLennox HotelBuilding0.3 miBHargadine-McKittrick Dry Goods BuildingRenaissance Revival0.3 miBBoard of Education BuildingRomanesque0.3 miBAmerican Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company BuildingModern Movement0.4 miBInternational Fur Exchange BuildingLate 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements · Built 19190.4 mi★Gateway ArchBuilt 19650.4 miBLincoln Trust BuildingBuilding0.4 miBOne Bell CenterBuilding0.4 miBMajestic HotelRenaissance Revival · Built 19130.4 miBFrisco BuildingCommercial0.4 miBOld Laclede Gas and Light Company BuildingClassical0.4 miBCity Club BuildingLate 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals0.4 miBBell Telephone BuildingRichardsonian Romanesque0.4 miBBalmer & Weber Music House Co. BuildingClassical Revival0.4 miBThiebe-Stierlin Music Company BuildingLate 19th and 20th Century Revival0.4 miBKieselhorst Piano Company BuildingLate Victorian0.4 miDWashington Avenue: East of Tucker DistrictItalianate0.4 miBBuilding at 1009 Olive St.Art Deco0.4 miBNational Cash Register Company Sales and Repair BuildingBuilding0.4 miBLindell Real Estate Company BuidlingCommercial0.4 miBDelany BuildingClassical Revival0.4 miBFarm and Home Savings and Loan AssociationModern Movement0.4 miBSt. Louis News CompanyLate Victorian0.4 miBHadley-Dean Glass CompanyLate Victorian0.4 miBLouderman BuildingClassical Revival0.4 miBPet PlazaModern Movement0.5 miBThe Publicity BuildingBuilding0.5 miBSt. Louis Post-Dispatch Printing BuildingInternational Style0.5 miBSt. Louis Post-Dispatch BuildingLate 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements0.5 miBA. D. Brown BuildingCommercial0.5 miBSilk Exchange BuildingBuilding0.5 miBSpool Cotton Co. BuildingLate 19th and 20th Century Revivals0.5 miBBuilding at 1121-23 Locust St.Classical Revival0.5 miBMidwest Terminal BuildingBuilt 19320.5 miBHotel JeffersonClassical Revival0.5 miBSt. Louis Globe-Democrat BuildingBuilding0.5 miBNeighborhood Gardens ApartmentsModernistic0.5 mi
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Other National Register listings within 25 miles described as Classical Revival.

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Questions about Security Building

Is Security Building on the National Register of Historic Places?

Yes. It was added on Feb 10, 2000 (Register number 00000083).

Is Security Building a National Historic Landmark?

No. It is on the National Register; Missouri has 35 National Historic Landmarks. The nearest is Jefferson National Expansion Memorial National Historic Site, 0.3 miles away.

Can you visit Security Building?

Our record doesn’t say whether it is open to visitors. Many listed buildings are private, so it may only be seen from the street.

Where can I read the history of Security Building?

In its National Register nomination, the form that put it on the Register: a 35 MB PDF at the National Archives, linked on this page.

Sources: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places (05/22/2026) · National Archives catalog record 63820485 · Wikidata. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.