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Louis Henry Sullivan 18561924 Architect
Sullivans designs for high-rise skyscrapers in the early 1890s freely expressed their soaring height and the geometric grid of their internal metal framework. The Auditorium Theatre, located on Michigan Avenue at Congress Boulevard, was completed with partner Dankmar Adler in 1889. On the Carson Pirie Scott & Company store, completed in 1903, Sullivans distinctive ornamentation, combining geometric and naturalistic forms, still attracts the attention of State Street shoppers.
Louis Sullivan lived in a house of his own design at 4575 South Lake Park Avenue between 1892 and 1896, during one of the busiest and most prolific periods of his career. Damaged by fire and abandoned, the house was demolished in 1970.