The International Shoe Company Building is a historic

shoe A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot. Though the human foot can adapt to varied terrains and climate conditions, it is vulnerable, and shoes provide protection. Form was originally tied to function, but ...

factory A factory, manufacturing plant or production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. Th ...

building located at 160 N. Main St. in

Saint Clair, Missouri St. Clair is a city in Franklin County, Missouri, United States. The population was 4,791 at the 2020 census. Geography St. Clair is located between the Meramec River to the southeast and the Bourbeuse River to the northwest. Interstate 44 in Mis ...

. The building was erected in 1922 as a factory for the

International Shoe Company Furniture Brands International, Inc. was a home furnishings company, headquartered in Clayton, Missouri. The company began in 1911 as International Shoe Company with the merger of Roberts, Johnson & Rand Shoe Company and Peters Shoe Company. In 19 ...

. It is a three-story, irregular-shaped building with a flat asphalt roof. It has a four-story elevator tower. The factory closed in 1982. (includes 26 photographs from 1992) It has been listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

since April 7, 1994.

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Shoe factories Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Industrial buildings completed in 1922 Buildings and structures in Franklin County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Missouri {{FranklinCountyMO-NRHP-stub