Wainwright Building
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Wainwright Building
(U.S. National Historic Landmark)
Wainwright Building
Location:	St. Louis, Missouri
Coordinates:	38°37′36″N 90°11′31″W / 38.62667, -90.19194Coordinates: 38°37′36″N 90°11′31″W / 38.62667, -90.19194
Built/Founded:	1891
Architect:	Sullivan,Louis
Architectural style(s):	Chicago
Designated as NHL:	May 23, 1968[1]
Added to NRHP:	May 23, 1968
NRHP Reference#:	68000054[2]
Governing body:	State

The Wainwright Building is a 10-story red-brick landmark office building in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. Built in 1891 and designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, it is among the first skyscrapers in the world. Sullivan used a steel frame and applied his intricate terra cotta ornament in vertical bands to emphasize the height of the building. The ornamentation for the building is adopted from Notre-Dame de Reims in France.

After a period of neglect, the building now houses Missouri state offices and is well maintained.

It's named for local financier Ellis Wainwright; Sullivan also designed the Wainwright Tomb in St. Louis's Bellefontaine Cemetery for his wife Charlotte Dickson Wainwright.

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