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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- Upon its initial completion, the Wainwright Building was "popular with the people" and received "favorably" by critics.[8].
- 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.
- Photo Credit: William A. Zbaren. Each floor of the Wainwright Building has its own ornament theme, seen in the window panels.
- Wainwright Building. 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 Wainwright Building is considered to be one of the first aesthetically fully expressed early skyscrapers. It was designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan...
- Architect Frank Lloyd Wright called the Wainwright Building “the very first human expression of a tall steel office-building as Architecture.”
- That said, the Wainwright Building isn’t something you’re going to notice or pay much attention too unless you’re looking for it.
- Since completion the Wainwright Building has been considered one of the key works of skyscraper design, and is often linked with Sullivan's...
- 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.
- With its ten floors and height of 41 meters (135 feet), the Wainwright Building was one of the tallest structures in Saint Louis when it was built.
