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Louis Sullivan

Born: 1856 | Boston, Massachusetts

Died: 1924 | Chicago, Illinois

Practice: Adler & Sullivan (1880)

Awards: AIA Gold Medal (1944, posthumous)

Projects: Auditorium Building, Bayard-Condict Building, Charnley-Persky House, Chicago World’s Fair Transportation Building, Prudential Building (Guaranty Building), Van Allen Building, Wainwright Building

Eliel House (Gustav Eliel Residence), Chicago, Illinois (1886)

Eliel House by Louis Sullivan © Legimet CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Halsted Row Houses, Chicago, Illinois (1884-1886)

Halsted Row Houses by Louis Sullivan © ChicagoGeek CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Auditorium Building, Chicago, Illinois (1889)

Auditorium Building by Louis Sullivan © Warren LeMay CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Graceland Cemetery Carrie Eliza Getty Tomb (Getty Tomb), Chicago, Illinois (1890)

Getty Tomb by Louis Sullivan © David Gleason CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Missouri (1890-1891)

Wainwright Building by Louis Sullivan © w_lemay CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Wainwright Tomb, St. Louis, Missouri (1892)

Wainwright Tomb by Louis Sullivan © w_lemay CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Charnley Persky House (originally James Charnley House), Chicago, Illinois (1891-1892)Chicago

Charnley Persky House by Louis Sullivan © w_lemay CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Guaranty Building (aka Prudential Building), Buffalo, New York (1895-1896)

Guaranty Building by Louis Sullivan © w_lemay CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Gage Building, Chicago, Illinois (1898-1900)

Gage Building by Louis Sullivan © Bmzuckerman CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Carson Pirie Scott (currently Sullivan Center), Chicago, Illinois (1899-1904, 1906)

Carson Pirie Scott by Louis Sullivan © w_lemay CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Farmers National Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota (1906-1908)

Farmers National Bank by Louis Sullivan © Bmzuckerman CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Harold C. Bradley House, Madison, Wisconsin (1909)

Bradley House by Louis Sullivan © w_lemay CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Henry Adams Building, Algona, Iowa (1913)

Henry Adams Building by Louis Sullivan © w_lemay CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Purdue State Bank, West Lafayette, Indiana (1914)

Purdue State Bank by Louis Sullivan © w_lemay CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Van Allen Office Building, Clinton, Iowa (1912-1914)

Van Allen Office Building by Louis Sullivan photo by Carol M Highsmith (public domain) via Wikimedia Commons

Home Building Association, Newark, Ohio (1914-1915)

Home Building Association by Louis Sullivan © w_lemay CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Merchants National Bank, Grinnell, Iowa (1914-1915)

Merchants National Bank by Louis Sullivan © McGhiever CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

People’s Federal Savings & Loan Association, Sidney, Ohio (1917-1918)

People’s Federal Savings by Louis Sullivan © w_lemay CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Farmers and Merchants Union Bank, Columbus, Wisconsin (1919-1920)