Louis Sullivan - Selected Projects

Selected Projects

• See also: Louis Sullivan buildings

Buildings 1887–1895 by Adler & Sullivan:

• Martin Ryerson Tomb, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago (1887)
• Auditorium Building, Chicago (1889)
• Carrie Eliza Getty Tomb, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago (1890)
• Wainwright Building, St. Louis (1890)
• Charlotte Dickson Wainwright Tomb, Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis (1892) which is lised on the National Register of Historic Places is considered a major American architectural triumph, a model for ecclesiastical architecture, a "masterpiece", and has been called "the Taj Mahal of St. Louis." Interestingly, the family name appears nowhere on the tomb.
• Union Trust Building (now 705 Olive), St. Louis (1893; street-level ornament heavily altered 1924)
• Guaranty Building (formerly Prudential Building), Buffalo (1894)

Buildings 1887–1895 by Louis Sullivan, with Dankmar Adler until 1895.

• Springer Block (later Bay State Building and Burnham Building) and Kranz Buildings, Chicago (1885–1887)
• The Auditorium Building, Auditorium Hotel and Auditorium Theater (now Roosevelt University), Chicago (1886–1890)
• Selz, Schwab & Company Factory, Chicago (1886–1887)
• Commercial Loft for Wirt Dexter, Chicago (1887)
• Standard Club of Chicago, Chicago (1887–1888)
• Hebrew Manual Training School, Chicago (1889–1890)
• James H. Walker Warehouse & Company Store, Chicago (1886–1889)
• Warehouse for E. W. Blatchford, Chicago (1889)
• Kehilath Anshe Ma'ariv Synagogue (also known as the K.A.M. Temple, later known as the Pilgrim Baptist Church), Chicago (1890–1891)
• James Charnley House (also known as the Charnley–Persky House Museum Foundation and the National Headquarters of the Society of Architectural Historians), Chicago (1891–1892)
• Albert Sullivan Residence, Chicago (1891–1892)
• Transportation Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1891–1893)
• McVicker's Theater, second remodeling, Chicago (1890–1891)
• Bayard Building, (now Bayard-Condict Building), 65–69 Bleecker Street, New York City (1898). Sullivan's only building in New York, with a glazed terra cotta curtain wall expressing the steel structure behind it.
• Commercial Loft of Gage Brothers & Company, Chicago (1898–1900)
• Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathedral and Rectory, Chicago (1900–1903)
• Carson Pirie Scott store, (originally known as the Schlesinger & Mayer Store, now known as "Sullivan Center") Chicago (1899–1904)
• Virginia Hall of Tusculum College, Greeneville, Tennessee, 1901
• Van Allen Building, Clinton, Iowa (1914)
• St. Paul's Methodist Church, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1910)
• Krause Music Store, Chicago (final commission 1922; front façade only)

256 total commissions and projects of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan