Chicago Stock Exchange Building: Two Elevator Enclosure Grilles, with Base Plates and Side Support Bars
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
1893/94
Medium
Cast and wrought iron with copper plating
Dimensions
Overall size of each assembly: 214.6 × 109.8 × 6 cm (84 1/2 × 43 1/4 × 2 3/8 in.)
Classification
grille
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
17435
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...