http://www.metafilter.com/tags/louissullivan Posts tagged with 'louissullivan' at MetaFilter. Sun, 16 Feb 2003 22:59:50 -0800 Sun, 16 Feb 2003 22:59:50 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/23627/Jewel%2DBoxes%2Dof%2Dthe%2DMidwest <a href="http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1469/sullivan.html">Louis Sullivan</a> had been one of the most successful architects of the late nineteenth century, working at the forefront of <a href="http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/chisull/chisull.html" title="Auditorium Building, Chicago (1889)">early</a> <a href="http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/wainwright/wainwright.html" title="Wainwright Building, St. Louis (1891)">skyscraper</a> <a href="http://ah.bfn.org/a/church/28/index.html" title="Guaranty Building, Buffalo (1896)">design</a>. But by the turn of the century, his distinctive style had fallen out of fashion, and his major commissions dried up. Sullivan took jobs where he could find them, and between 1908 and 1919 designed small banks in eight midwest towns. Tiny yet elegant, they are sometimes referred to as his "<a href="http://www.narrowlarry.com/nlsull.html">jewel boxes</a>." See examples in <a href="http://www.tape.net/~gerry/sullivan/owatonna/" title="National Farmers Bank (1908)">Owatonna, Minnesota</a>; <a href="http://www.burrows.com/bank.html" title="Merchants Bank (1914)">Grinnell, Iowa</a>; <a href="http://www.hort.purdue.edu/arch/psb/psb.htm" title="Purdue State Bank (1914)">West Lafayette, Indiana</a>; <a href="http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/sidney/sidney.html" title="People's Savings and Loan Association (1918)">Sidney, Ohio</a>; and <a href="http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/wisconsin/columbus/sullivan/sullivan.html" title="Farmers and Merchants Union Bank (1919)">Columbus, Wisconsin</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.23627 Sun, 16 Feb 2003 22:59:50 -0800 architecture louissullivan midwest skyscapers Aaaugh!