Henry Schaumburg, Jr. designed this storefront, which was constructed in 1900. He was one of South St. Louis' German-American architects who celebrated the abundance and variety of decorative brick available in St. Louis. His father was a bricklayer who became a contractor. Schaumburg began his architectural career as a clerk in the office of another South St. Louis German-American architect, Otto Wilhelmi. A large-scale example of his work is the Farmers & Merchants Trust Company building at 3548 S. Grand Boulevard. This storefront features his use of decorative brick with a fleur-de-lis pattern, brick with a Greek key design on the corner of the second floor, and bricks with a tulip design outlining the second-story facade windows.
