Board of Trade/Centennial Garage

 

 

Erected by local architect Frank E. Trask (who also worked on the Board of Trade Building itself), the eight story brick garage served the Board of Trust members and employees. It’s the one and only Modernist building in the downtown Library District built after World War II. During the 1950s, Trask was again commissioned to add four more stories, and the garage then became known as the Centennial. Edwin Shields, president of local Simons-Shields-Lonsdale Grain Company, owned and operated the impressive 10th Street structure.