Holland Building

The building stands on the site of an earlier T. B. Holland owned building that was destroyed in 1913 by a fire that also destroyed many of the other buildings on the north side of the town square.

The new building was designed with retail spaces on the ground floor and office spaces on the upper floors. There were originally four retail spaces on the first floor. The Clement Jewelry Store had reserved the prime corner space before the building opened. The C. H. Dalrymple Drug Store was located in the one retail space that faced what was St. Louis Street at the time, but is now Park Central E.

When the building opened in late 1914 the Holland Cafe was located in the basement. The cafe was gone by the early 1922 and was replaced by a Brunswick Billiards Parlor that stayed in place until at least into the early 1950s.

In 1948 the corner space and the space on its north side were combined making a larger space for Zale Jewelers who had occupied the corner spot since 1945.

The name "HOLLAND BUILDING" is engraved just below the shadow at the top of this photo. A 1914 article extolling the marvels of this building describes the main entrance and lobby in part like this ...

"ORNATE
ENTRANCE"
"There is a rich metal marquis over the main entrance. The lobby is of highly polished, beautiful Vermont marble. From this is an elegant marble stairway leading down to the cafe, presenting a most inviting entrance to the cafe and restaurant. From the main lobby one enters the center foyer, also a marvel of beautiful marble walls surmounted by a ceiling displaying the most artistic and elaborate ornamentation ever seen in this city."

This lobby is also were the dual elevators are located. The marble surrounding the entrance is original to the building.

The marble seen above and below the display windows, on the left in this photo, next to the entry marble, was added to the exterior as part of a remodeling in the late 1940s when the Zale Jewelry Store space was expanded and a corner entrance to that space was added. That marble facing wraps around the corner of the corner store space.

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Vintage Advertising Highlights

Holland Building, Springfield, Mo.

NOTE: Other than the text in the upper right corner of this postcard there is no other descriptive text.
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