The Wainwright Building at 709 Chestnut Street in St. Louis was designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan of Adler & Sullivan for Ellis Wainwright, a brewer, builder and financier who needed offices for the St. Louis Brewers Association. The infobox gives 1891, and the text says it was built between 1890 and 1891.
The infobox calls the style Chicago school, a label the body text does not use. The ten-story building is 135 feet (41 m) tall, with terra cotta embellishments, a base-shaft-attic composition, a celery-leaf foliage frieze and bull's-eye windows lighting the top floor. The National Register calls it a highly influential prototype of the modern office building.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation took an option to save it from demolition, and it became a National Historic Landmark in 1968. It was sold at auction in September 2024 for about $8 million, and the article gives no current use.
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