Brunswick Balke Collender Company Factory Building, Chicago, Illinois, Foundation Plan and Basement Plan
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
1891 Destroyed by fire on April 15, 1989
Medium
Black and red ink on linen with pencil notes
Dimensions
52 × 58 cm (20 1/2 × 22 7/8 in.)
Classification
architectural drawing
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
73813
About the Artist
Adler & Sullivan, Architects · 1883–1896
Adler & Sullivan was the Chicago architectural partnership that laid the conceptual and structural foundations for the modern American skyscraper. Dankmar Adler (1844–1900), a German-born engineer celebrated for his mastery of building acoustics and structural systems, hired Louis Sullivan (1856–1924) in 1879; the two became full partners in 1883. Sullivan had trained at the Massachusetts Institut...