Historical 1940 A&P Food Store Building In St. Louis Was a Link to the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company Grocery Chain
Today there’s a bakery inside
One of the oldest A & P grocery store buildings located at 6016 Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri was built in 1940. It’s a one-story building that is architecturally designed in Art Deco. The main entrance of the building is in a rounded corner. The original parking lot is still on the property of the building.
The building is considered rare because it’s small and it carries the Art Deco design. Other commercial buildings were much larger. An architectural firm, Saum Architects, which wasn’t really well-known designed the building. Part of the significance of this store was that it was one of the first that was constructed to serve customers who owned automobiles because it provided parking.
This particular A & P store was operating until the chain left St. Louis between 1979 and 1980. In 2000, it became listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Today, the building on Delmar Boulevard houses a bakery called Sugar Momma’s Traditional Treats.
A&P comes to St. Louis
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company was founded in Manhattan in…
