Chicago Stock Exchange Building: First Floor Elevator Enclosure Grille T-Plate
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
1893/94
Medium
Stamped copper
Dimensions
41 × 43.2 × 1 cm (16 3/16 × 17 1/16 × 7/16 in.)
Classification
architectural fragment
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
12765
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...