Year Built: 1911
Architect: R. C. Clark, architect

The small utilitarian building at the northeast corner of 8th and ‘O’ was built in 1911 for Armour & Co., the meat packers.  A close examination reveals surprisingly fine materials, such as the tooled limestone trim and openwork steel trusses supporting the canopy.  R. C. Clark of Chicago was the architect and Gerstenberger & Gooden the constructors for the $24,000 building.  Earlier structures on the site included a succession of small hotels. 

If you walk east along ‘O’ Street beyond the Armour Building, across the parking lot behind the building you will see fragments of surprisingly colorful painted wall signs.  They have survived so well because they were protected for years by a building which has since been demolished.