The top of this structure is rendered as a deep overhanging cornice faced in an ornamented terra cotta skin; while the middle section consists of red brick pilasters with decorated terra cotta spandrels to match the skin above. But it is the suppressed all steel transom taken from the facade of Richardson's Marshall Field Store built two years earl
The top of this structure is rendered as a deep overhanging cornice faced in an ornamented terra cotta skin; while the middle section consists of red brick pilasters with decorated terra cotta spandrels to match the skin above. But it is the suppressed all steel transom taken from the facade of Richardson's Marshall Field Store built two years earlier that gives this 10 story building, set on a two-foot-high string course of Missouri granite, its vertical emphasis. FTP identify this famed 1890 skyscraper built in St. Louis and designed by Louis Sullivan.
The top of this structure is rendered as a deep overhanging cornice faced in an ornamented terra cotta skin; while the middle section consists of red brick pilasters with decorated terra cotta spandrels to match the skin above.
Wainwright building