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Purcell and Elmslie, Architects

Firm active: 1907-1921

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Louis Henri Sullivan

[While this page needs to become the Temple of Poseidon in Atlantis, it must for the time being pose as a working accumulation page of Sullivaniana related to this site and such other points of interest as come to hand.]

Portrait
Mark Hammons, 2005

Works

Auditorium Building (1886-1890)
Kehilath Ansche Ma'ariv Synagogue (1890-91) [burned, 2005]
Schelsinger & Mayer Store [Carson, Pirie, Scott] (1898/1904)
National Farmers' Bank (1905)

Writings

Kindergarten Chats
Autobiography of an Idea
Democracy, A Man Search

Other References

Reference to Sullivan in Northwest Architect article, by William Gray Purcell
Excerpts from "What Is Architecture: A Study of the American People of Today" by Louis Sullivan, with commentary by Purcell, published in Northwest Architect (I)
Additional excerpts from "What Is Architecture Sullivan at Work," published in Northwest Architect (II)
Reference to Sullivan in Northwest Architect article, by William Gray Purcell

Other Resources

The American Memory at the Library of Congress has HABS images of Sullivan buildings.