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The Wainwright Building (also known as the Wainwright State Office Building) is a 10-story, 41 m (135 ft) terra cotta office building at 709 Chestnut Street in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. [3] The Wainwright Building is considered to be one of the first aesthetically fully expressed early skyscrapers .
Among the first skyscrapers built in the world, the Wainwright Building by Louis Sullivan and partner Dankmar Adler is regarded as an influential prototype of a modern office architecture.
Wainwright Building. Located at 701 Chestnut St. the Wainwright Building was designed by the famed architects Adler and Sullivan in 1891 for Ellis Wainwright, a wealthy St. Louis brewer (see also Wainwright Tomb, Landmark #18).
The Wainwright Building, situated in St. Louis, Missouri, stands as an enduring testament to the genius of one of America's most celebrated architects, Louis Sullivan. This iconic structure, completed in 1891, holds the distinction of being one of the first skyscrapers in the world.
The Wainwright Building in downtown St. Louis was sold last week to Arch to Park Equity Fund LLC for an $8.25 million bid, according to a government auction website. The Missouri Board of Public Buildings approved the sale of the 234,600-square-foot building on July 2.
The 10-story Wainwright Building in St. Louis is the most important skyscraper designed by Sullivan. Unlike the Auditorium Building, the exterior walls of which are solid masonry and load bearing, it is of steel frame throughout, an idea advanced by William Le Baron Jenney in 1883–85 in Chicago.
Renovated and reopened as the Wainwright State Office Building in 1981, the landmark once again displays its stunning deep red Missouri granite base, brick and terra-cotta mid-section, and terra-cotta attic and cornice.
The Wainwright Building is among the first skyscrapers in the world. It was designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan in the Palazzo style and built between 1890 and 1891. It was named for local brewer, building contractor, and financier Ellis Wainwright.
Often considered one of the first true skyscrapers, the Wainwright Building, completed in 1891, showcases Sullivan's signature use of intricate terra cotta ornamentation and vertical emphasis in its design.
Wainwright Building, an archetypal modern structure, is well known as the first design to express clearly the quality of “tallness” in the new steel-frame skyscrapers that