Brown Shoe Company's Homes-Take Factory is a historic building location at 1201 Russell Boulevard in the Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Built in 1904, by architect Albert B. Groves, the building was originally a factory for the Brown Shoe Company. During the Great Depression, the factory was permanently mothballed. In 1954, the property was bought by the International Hat Company, which converted the building into a warehouse. The Mexican Hat Factory purchased a separate part of the building and converted the section into office space. International Hat warehouse operated until 1976. That same year, the entire building was sold to the Junior Achievement of the Mississippi Valley. By 1980, the building was bought by Allen Market Lane Apartments. On October 20, 1980, the building was formally added to the National Register of Historical Places. Since 1980, the property has operated as a senior and disabled living center, with 100 units.ArchitectureThe Homes-Take factory was originally designed to be a four story, rectangular red brick building, measuring sixty by three hundred feet. The building occupies approximately one half of a city block. A dominant feature of the architectural design is the closely spaced windows, ten feet by three-and-a-half feet.