Coulter Feed Mill
St. Louis Co. | Missouri | USA
Watersource: Non water-powered
Coulter Feed Mill
Off I-44 onto US 67/S Kirkwood Road/Historic Route 66, go north 1.5 miles, turn left over rr tracks onto W Argonne Drive. The mill is immediately on the right, diagonally across the tracks from the Historic Kirkwood Amtrak Depot.
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The building dates to 1912 and was built as a feed and grain operation with a drive-through doorway in the center for wagons .
Paint stripped from the building at 111 W. Argonne Drive, near the Kirkwood train station, in 1987, revealed vintage commercial signs: Coulter Feed Co. with the Purina Checkerboard pattern and a Bull Durham Tobacco sign on the side.
The old mill building, purchased by architectural illustrator Bob Whitesitt in 1987, had various coats of signs painted over the Bull Durham sign, six to be exact.
The newer signs were painted in red and black enamel, which were removed with Prosilco. The older, under-layer signs were lead-based. Each layer had to be accessed as to whether to kept it or to remove another layer to reveal new signage.
The building is now home to a garden supply/home décor type store.
Some of the home décor supplies in the shop.
Close-up of the lead-based signage on the front of the Old Coulter Feed Mill.