Sears, Roebuck and Company Warehouse Building, also known as Missouri Poster and Sign Company, Inc. and Bellas Hess Antique Mall, is a historic

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building located at

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. It was built in 1912–1923, and is a nine-story building built as a merchandise warehouse for

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...

. The building features

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and Chicago school style design elements. It has since been adaptively reused as apartments and is now known a
Park Lofts
It was listed on the

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in 1997.

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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Gothic Revival architecture in Missouri Commercial buildings completed in 1913 Buildings and structures in Clay County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Kansas City, Missouri Sears Holdings buildings and structures Chicago school architecture in Missouri {{ClayCountyMO-NRHP-stub