Built in 1892-1893, this Chicago School-style skyscraper was designed by Adler and Sullivan for the Union Trust Company, a bank. The building, a follow-up to the more famous Wainwright Building one block to the south, is considered to be a more pure expression of Louis Sullivan’s design philosophy than the Wainwright Building, though the later Guaranty Building (Buffalo, New York, 1896) is perhaps the most pure expression of Sullivan’s ideas applied to a surviving skyscraper. The building bears some similarities to the nearby Wainwright Building, but features a tan exterior, light court that i‹›
Hotel Saint Louis

Louis Sullivan

Exterior · St. Louis, United States · 1892

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Built in 1892-1893, this Chicago School-style skyscraper was designed by Adler and Sullivan for the Union Trust Company, a bank. The building, a follow-up to the more famous Wainwright Building one block to the south, is considered to be a more pure expression of Louis Sullivan’s design philosophy than the Wainwright Building, though the later Guaranty Building (Buffalo, New York, 1896) is perhaps the most pure expression of Sullivan’s ideas applied to a surviving skyscraper. The building bears some similarities to the nearby Wainwright Building, but features a tan exterior, light court that i

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