St. Louis ยท Downtown & the Arch
Drury Plaza Hotel at the Arch
The 1920 International Fur Exchange, where federal fur seal auctions were held, joined by Drury to two adjoining buildings.
- Built
- 1920International Fur Exchange Building begun 1919 and completed 1920 (ten-story south addition 1958); Drury combined it with the adjoining Thomas Jefferson and American Zinc buildings in the late 1990s.
- Architect
- George W. Hellmuth
- Type
- Grand hotel
- Area
- Downtown & the Arch
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The story
George W. Hellmuth designed the seven-story International Fur Exchange, begun in 1919 and opened in 1920, and St. Louis was an international center of the fur trade from 1920 to 1948. The Fouke Fur Company held federal auctions of fur seal pelts from the Pribilof Islands here. A compatible ten-story addition was built in 1958. Drury Hotels bought the building in 1997 and joined it with the Thomas Jefferson and American Zinc buildings to create the Drury Plaza Hotel at the Arch.
Good to know
- Address: 2 S. 4th Street, St. Louis, MO
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.