Brown Shoe Co.
St. Louis, MO
2 Shipments
Famous manufacturer of "Buster Brown" brand shoes etc etc etc describe
more here. Company operated numerous factories and warehouses throughout the
city of St. Louis and elsewhere in Missouri by the 1930s, and continues to
operate today as Caleres Inc. As the only records from this shipper are
Railway Express receipts, neither the cars nor their originating location
are specified, so the location given on the map is for the company's
original headquarters building in downtown St. Louis at 1600 Washington Ave.
The company first occupied this location in 1891, but after its headquarters
moved to nearby Clayton, MO in 1952, the building was eventually demolished,
and the address now points to a parking lot. A number of Brown Shoe factory
buildings do however remain throughout the region, renovated for various
other uses.