In the early 20th century, the frozen river became a popular spot to buy liquor on Sundays in the winter. The Mississippi River in January 1873, during the construction of the Eads Bridge A picture from January 1873 shows the river frozen over, as the pillars for the then incomplete Eads Bridge sticking through the ice in the frozen river. Louis, it often got so cold for an extended period of time that the Mississippi River would regularly freeze solid. Nicholas Hotel Fire on January 4th, 1884 St. Nicholas also suffered a fire, and was converted to office space, before eventually being demolished in 1972. Nicholas Hotel was completely destroyed, but it was later rebuilt in 1893 by Louis Sullivan, at 8th and Locust.
Newspapers at the time said that the building really didn’t qualify as a hotel on that night, because only the shops on the lower floor were occupied during the fire, and fortunately, nobody was staying in the hotel that night. Nicholas Hotel, located on 4th Street, between Morgan and Franklin ( today’s Delmar and Martin Luther King), caught fire as the building had lit its furnaces and tried to keep the place warm in the extreme cold. This was an extremely cold day, with temperatures reaching as low as 26 degrees below zero. Louis recorded its coldest day on record in 1884, on January 4th. Winter in Lafayette Square, on LaSalle Street Louis history, there were plenty of years that were significantly colder or snowier than last week. Louis has experienced relatively mild winter seasons, with only a few major snows. However, to any of its longtime residents, this is certainly not the first time that weather like this has come to the area. Louis just experienced one of its coldest and snowiest weeks in recent years.
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