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Architect Louis H. Sullivan
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Location St. Louis, Missouri   map
Date 1890 to 1891   timeline
Building Type early skyscraper, commercial office tower
 Construction System steel frame clad in masonry
Climate temperate
Context urban
Style Early Modern
Notes An early tall building (10 stories) with an all steel frame. The Chicago School.
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Discussion Wainwright Building Commentary

"The eleven-storey Wainwright Building represents Sullivan's first attempt at a truly multi-storey format, in which the device of the suppressed transom taken from the faŤade of Richardson's Marshall Field Store, Chicago of 1888, is used to impart a decidedly vertical emphasis to the building's overall form...The two-storey base of the classical tripartite composition is faced in fine red sandstone set on a two-foot-high string course of red Missouri granite. While the middle section consists of red brick pilasters with decorated terra cotta spandrels, the top is rendered as a deep overhanging cornice faced in an ornamented terra cotta skin to match the enrichment of the spandrels and the pilasters below."

— Kenneth Frampton and Yukio Futagawa. Modern Architecture 1851-1945. p62.

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Sources on Wainwright Building

Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. ISBN 0-442-21668-8. LC 84-3543. NA2750.C55 1984. site plan, p114. section, p114. elevation, p114. lower floor plan, p114. diagrams, p115. upper floor plan drawing, p114. — Updated edition available at Amazon.com

William J.R. Curtis. Modern Architecture since 1890. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1987. Exterior photo of building from street,f3.3, p39.

Wim De Wit, ed. Louis Sullivan: The Function of Ornament. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1986. Exterior photo of building from street, f70, p75.

Kenneth Frampton. Modern Architecture 1851-1945. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1983. ISBN 0-8478-0506-9. LC 83-61363. NA642.F7 1983. first floor plan, p62. — Available at Amazon.com

Leland M. Roth. A Concise History of American Architecture. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1979. ISBN 0-06-430086-2. NA705.R67 1979. exterior photo, p181.

Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com

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