Likely a side/back entrance. Letters above door read "Wainwright State Office Building". Letters on door glass read: "Use Front Entrance", "No Smoking", and a paper sign reading "PLEASE USE 7TH STREET ENTRANCE". Parking meter in foreground reads "104005".‹›
Wainwright Building

Louis Sullivan

Exterior · St. Louis, United States · 1890

Photo: Paul Sableman · 2010-07-10 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 3226×4259

Likely a side/back entrance. Letters above door read "Wainwright State Office Building". Letters on door glass read: "Use Front Entrance", "No Smoking", and a paper sign reading "PLEASE USE 7TH STREET ENTRANCE". Parking meter in foreground reads "104005".

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