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Selected Works:

Sullivan’s Jewel Boxes:

National Farmer's Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota - 1908
Peoples Savings Bank, Cedar Rapids, Iowa - 1912
Henry Adams Building, Algona, Iowa - 1913
Merchants' National Bank, Grinnell, Iowa - 1914
Home Building Association Company, Newark, Ohio - 1914
Purdue State Bank, West Lafayette, Indiana - 1914
People's Federal Savings and Loan Association, Sidney, Ohio - 1918
Farmers and Merchants Bank, Columbus, Wisconsin - 1919


Selected projects:

Buildings through 1895 are by Adler & Sullivan:

Martin Ryerson Tomb, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago - 1887
Auditorium Building, Chicago - 1889
Carrie Eliza Getty Tomb, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago - 1890
Wainwright Building, St. Louis - 1890
Charlotte Dickson Wainwright Tomb, Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis - 1892


Union Trust Building - now 705 Olive, St. Louis - 1893; street-level ornament heavily altered 1924
Guaranty Building - formerly Prudential Building, Buffalo - 1894

Bayard Building, - now Bayard-Condict Building, 65–69 Bleecker Street, New York City - 1898. Sullivan's only building in New York, with a glazed terra cotta curtain wall expressing the steel structure behind it

Carson Pirie Scott store, Chicago - 1899
Van Allen Building, Clinton, Iowa - 1914
St Paul's Methodist Church, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Krause Music Store, Chicago - final commission 1922.

Lost Sullivans:

Entrance from the 1893 Chicago Stock Exchange building, reinstalled at The Art Institute of Chicago

Grand Opera House, Chicago. 1880 - 1927
Pueblo Opera House, Pueblo, Colorado. 1890 - 1922. Destroyed by fire.
New Orleans Union Station, 1892. Demolished 1954.
Dooley Block, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1890s Demolished 1965.

Chicago Stock Exchange Building. Adler & Sullivan. 1893 - 1972
The Trading room from the Stock Exchange was removed intact prior to the building's demolition and was subsequently restored in the Art Institute of Chicago in 1977 stands outside on the northeast corner of the AIC site.

Zion Temple, Chicago. 1884-?
Transportation Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago. Adler & Sullivan. 1893 - 94. An exposition building, it was only built to last a year.

Louis Sullivan Bungalow, destroyed in Hurricane Katrina. Frank Lloyd Wright also claimed credit for the design.
Schiller Building - later Garrick Theater, Chicago. Adler & Sullivan. 1891–1961.
Third McVickers Theater, Chicago. Adler & Sullivan. 1883?-1922.
Thirty-Ninth Street Passenger Station, Chicago. Adler & Sullivan. 1886–1934.
Standard Club, Chicago. Adler & Sullivan. 1888 - 1910.
Pilgrim Baptist Church. Adler & Sullivan. 1891 - 2006. Destroyed by fire, Jan. 6.
Wirt Dexter Building. Adler & Sullivan. 1887 - 2006. Destroyed by fire, Oct. 24.
George Harvey House. Adler & Sullivan. 1888 - 2006. Destroyed by fire, Nov. 4.