Railway Exchange Building - St Louis, MO
The Railway Exchange Building is a 277 ft, 21-story high-rise office building in St. Louis, Missouri. The 1914 steel-frame building is in the Chicago School Architectural Style, and was designed by Architect Mauran, Russell &amp; Crowell.  The building was the city's tallest when it opened, and remains the second-largest building in downtown St. Louis by interior area, with almost 1,200,000 square feet of space.

The building was long home to the flagship store of the Famous-Barr chain of department stores — and the headquarters of its parent company May Department Stores — until the brand was bought by Macy's; the store was converted to a Macy's in 2006.  It sits now mostly abandoned since the closing of Macy's in 2013.

Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5200 and combined with Photomatix to create this HDR image.  Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.

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