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September 4, 1856: Louis Henri Sullivan born in Boston.
1872: Studied architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1873: Moved to Philadelphia to work for architect Frank Furness, designer of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
1873: Laid off by Furness due to depression of 1873.
1873: Moved to Chicago & worked for architect William LeBaron Jenney.
1874: Moved to Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts.
Traveled to Rome & finds revelation in Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling.
1875: After 6 mos in Europe, returned to Chicago to work for Joseph S. Johnston & John Edelman as a draftsman.
1875: Became fascinated with new architecture based on iron construction through friendship with engineer Frederick Baumann.
Obtained commissions to decorate Edelmann's Sinai Synagogue & then Moody Tabernacle.
1879: Employed by architect Dankmar Adler.
1880: Becomes partner in Adler & Sullivan.
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1883: Kauffmann Store & Flats, Chicago by Adler & Sullivan
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1884: Leon Mannheimer Home, Chicago by Adler & Sullivan
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1887: Martin Ryerson Tomb in Graceland Cemetary, Chicago by Adler & Sullivan
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c1889s: Desenberg Block, Kalamazoo, MI. |
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1880s: Adler & Sullivan make mark designing theaters.
1889: Auditorium Building (now Roosevelt University), Chicago introduces concept of mixed use theater, hotel & office building. |
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1890s: Adler & Sullivan shift to designing office buildings.
1891: Wainwright Building, St. Louis. They invent aesthetic treatment for highrise exterior. |
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| 1887: Frank Lloyd Wright joins Adler & Sullivan, works up to Sullivan's Chief Assistant.
1891: James Charnley House by Sullivan & Wright, Chicago
1893: Wright leaves Sullivan for unclear reasons, perhaps about Wright's poaching Sullivan's clients.
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Adler & Sullivan 1890s commissions.
1890: Carrie Eliza Getty Tomb in Graceland Cemetary, Chicago
1891: Kehilath Anshe Ma'ariv Synagogue, Chicago
1892: Charlotte Dickson Wainwright Tomb, Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis
1894: Chicago Stock Exchange Building, Chicago
(demolished though trading room & entryway arch now at Art Institute of Chicago)
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1893: Sullivan designs Transportation Building for World's Columbian Exposition. It has arched Golden Door & multicolored facade which departed from overall White City concept of Beaux-Arts structures conceived by fair planner Daniel Hudson Burnham, leading to clashes between them. All but one of Exposition's buildings were destroyed by arsonists after the event.
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1895: Guaranty (former Prudential ) Building, Buffalo.
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1895: Adler & Sullivan dissolve partnership after drop in commissions resulting from financial Panic of 1893.
Since Adler was the partner who landed most commissions, Sullivan's career starts its decline.
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1898: Bayard-Condict Building, New York. |
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1899: Carson Pirie Scott Department Store, Chicago.
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Sullivan exists on small commissions.
1899: Gage Group (Ascher, Keith, & Gage) of Buildings, Chicago
1903: Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathedral & Rectory, Chicago
1907: Babson Residence, Riverside, IL
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Sullivan lands a series of commissions for what he calls Jewel Box banks.
1908: National Farmer's Bank, Owatonna, MN
1912: Peoples Savings Bank, Cedar Rapids, IA
1913: Henry C. Adams Building (Land & Loan Office), Algona, IA
1914: Merchants' National Bank, Grinnell, IA
1914: Home Building Association Company, Newark, OH
1914: Purdue State Bank, West Lafayette, IN
1918: People's Federal Savings & Loan Association, Sidney, OH
1919: Farmer's & Merchant's Union Bank, Columbus, WI
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1915: J.D. Van Allen Dry Goods Co. Store, Clinton, IA
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1922: William P. Krause Music Store, Chicago
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April 14, 1924: Sullivan's dies poor & alone, in a Chicago hotel room.
Sullivan buried under simple headstone in Graceland Cementery.
Architectural community later puts up memorial to Sullivan in Graceland Cementery.
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