St. Nicholas Hotel (St. Louis)

The St. Nicholas Hotel was a historic hotel located at the northwest corner of 8th Street and Locust Streets in St. Louis, Missouri.

The original St. Nicholas Hotel in St. Louis was located on 4th Street, but this building was destroyed by a fire in 1884.

This January 4, 1884, fire is remembered as one of the most difficult for the St. Louis Fire Department as the temperature had fallen to 26 degrees below zero with ice reaching two-feet thick to the outside walls after water had been sprayed on the exterior.

[4] A supposed fire had led to the hotel's conversion to an office building when the gabled roof and arched entrance were removed and four floors were added[5] with a restaurant added and Turkish bath installed in the basement.

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