# Brown Shoe Company's Homes-Take Factory

St. Louis, MO · industrial · tier: draft · Retrofit Atlas record `n-2644c7a5d6` · release 2026-10-21

Canonical: https://retrofitatlas.org/industrial/mo/st-louis-brown-shoe-company-s-homes-take-factory/  
JSON: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/n-2644c7a5d6.json · Provenance: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/n-2644c7a5d6.provenance.json · API: https://retrofitatlas.org/api/v1/sites/n-2644c7a5d6

## Facts

| Field | Value | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Status | operating | none |
| Strategy | reinhabit | none |
| New use | housing | none |
| What is there now | senior and disabled living center, with 100 units | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Original developer | Brown Shoe Company | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Redeveloper | Allen Market Lane Apartments | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |

## Quoted support

- **architect_original**: “Albert B. Groves” — extraction-deep:nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b
- **units_built**: “100 units” — extraction-deep:nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b

## Anchors

Brown Shoe Company

## Parties

- Allen Market Lane Apartments — developer

## Background (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened)

Brown Shoe Company's Homes-Take Factory, also known as the International Hat Company Warehouse, is a historic building location at 1201 Russell Boulevard in the Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri.  Built in 1904, by renowned architect Albert B. Groves, the building was originally a factory for the Brown Shoe Company, based in St. Louis.  In 1954, the factory was subsequently converted into a warehouse by the International Hat Company.   The site has been recognized as a testament to Grove's architectural expertise in the principles of factory design, namely technical advances in layout planning, operational efficiency, and employee safety.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Shoe_Company%27s_Homes-Take_Factory

## Sources

- Brown Shoe Company's Homes-Take Factory — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Shoe_Company%27s_Homes-Take_Factory

## Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Brown Shoe Company's Homes-Take Factory, St. Louis, MO." Record n-2644c7a5d6, release 2026-10-21, tier draft. https://retrofitatlas.org/industrial/mo/st-louis-brown-shoe-company-s-homes-take-factory/ (accessed 2026-10-21).

```bibtex
@misc{retrofitatlas_stlouisbrownshoecompanyshomestakefactory,
  title = {Brown Shoe Company's Homes-Take Factory, St. Louis, MO},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/industrial/mo/st-louis-brown-shoe-company-s-homes-take-factory/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record n-2644c7a5d6, release 2026-10-21, tier: draft. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-21}
}
```

Licence: research use only; terms undecided with the authors (https://retrofitatlas.org/licence/). Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0. Tiers: curated = from the authors' public map, not reviewed by them; draft = imported or model-extracted, unreviewed.