Nugents

He moved to St. Louis and started a 23-by-56-foot store there at the southeast corner of Broadway and Franklin in February 1873.

In 1889 Nugents moved again to an even larger site, which would remain its home[1] until the company closed, but not before annexing two additional buildings.

In 1914, it celebrated "41 years underselling", illustrating the low-price, mass-merchandise theme of Nugents where it positioned itself in the market.

The downtown complex eventually came to consist of three buildings and there was a bridge across St. Charles Street to one of them, referred to as an Annex, which dated back to 1850.

[2][3] The main part of the Downtown store was reclad and is in use by the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank.