Spandrel Panel from the Saint Nicholas Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
1892/93
Medium
Terra-cotta
Dimensions
137.2 × 122 × 10.2 cm (54 × 48 × 4 in.)
Classification
architectural fragment
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46636
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...