Newel Post from the Morris Selz House, Chicago, Illinois
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
1883 (demolished 1967)
Medium
Cast iron
Dimensions
55.9 × 124.5 × 7.7 cm (22 × 49 × 3 in.)
Classification
architectural fragment
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46632
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...