A & P Food Stores Building

A & P Food Stores Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	6016, 6014, and 6018 Delmar, St. Louis, Missouri
Coordinates	38°39′16″N 90°17′41″W / 38.65444°N 90.29472°WCoordinates: 38°39′16″N 90°17′41″W / 38.65444°N 90.29472°W
Built	1940
Architect	Saum Architects
Architectural style	Art Deco, Moderne
NRHP Reference #	00001171[1]
Added to NRHP	October 15, 2000

The A & P Food Stores Building in St. Louis, Missouri is historically significant in part because it is rare in Saint Louis as a small commercial building having an Art Deco building design. Most others were either residential or larger commercial buildings. It also serves as an example of the work of Saum Architects, a not-well-known architectural firm of Saint Louis in the early 1900s. And it's also significant as having been one of the first supermarkets in Saint Louis, which developed to serve automobile-owning customers, providing parking and convenient "one stop shopping".^[2]:13

There were as many as 84 A & P stores in the city, 20 being supermarkets and the others being cash and carry stores; this building is one of the last surviving of these, and it was among those which kept operating up until A & P entirely left the city in 1979-1980.^[2]:18

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.^[1]

See also

• The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, food store chain

References

1. National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Karen Bode Baxter and Timothy P. Maloney (July 10, 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: A & P Food Stores Building" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-06-23. including photos