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. The Wainwright Building is considered to be one of the first aesthetically fully expressed early skyscrapers.
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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...
- The windows up the facades of the Wainwright Building are all inset slightly behind their surrounding columns and piers, to withhold Sullivan's vertical aesthetic.
- To see it, walk two blocks north of the Wainwright Building to the 705 Olive Street Building (formerly known as the Union Trust Building), which was...
- In 1891, the high-rise typology was further defined toward what it is known as today with the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri.
- The 10-story Wainwright Building in St. Louis is the most important skyscraper designed by Sullivan.
- The Wainwright Building at 709 Chestnut Street is a 10-story, steel frame, red brick office building constructed in 1890-1891 and still operational today.
- There’s no doubt the Wainwright Building is important; I just didn’t get much enjoyment from visiting it.
- Since completion the Wainwright Building has been considered one of the key works of skyscraper design, and is often linked with Sullivan's best-remembered...
- Louis Sullivan called the [Guaranty] Prudential Building a "sister" to his prototuype skyscraper, the Wainwright Building (1890-1892) in Saint Louis, both...
- The Wainwright building was initially rescued from demolition by the National Trust for Historic Preservation when the Trust took an option on the structure.
