Astonishing detail! I’m kinda surprised it’s not filthy, because it looks hard as hell to keep clean.
I found out years ago that [the preschool I attended was a Sullivan commissions](https://www.stpaulsumc.org/our-history), but the bastards were so cheap, so he resigned rather than compromise. Ironically (or not), the final result looks an awful lot like Wright’s designs from the same period (~1913).
The other Sullivan building in my hometown was destroyed in the 2008 floods, but I just looked it up, and [it’s been restored](http://popolicr.com/gallery/)! (As a restaurant, not as a bank, but *still*…) And [the firm that did the restoration](http://www.opnarchitects.com/work/popoli-ristorante-sullivans-bar/) is one that my dad worked for, but even though I remember him taking us to visit the building in the late 80s, I don’t think that he was still there during the 1991 restoration.
nickgt1969 says
Beautiful.
nrith says
Astonishing detail! I’m kinda surprised it’s not filthy, because it looks hard as hell to keep clean.
I found out years ago that [the preschool I attended was a Sullivan commissions](https://www.stpaulsumc.org/our-history), but the bastards were so cheap, so he resigned rather than compromise. Ironically (or not), the final result looks an awful lot like Wright’s designs from the same period (~1913).
The other Sullivan building in my hometown was destroyed in the 2008 floods, but I just looked it up, and [it’s been restored](http://popolicr.com/gallery/)! (As a restaurant, not as a bank, but *still*…) And [the firm that did the restoration](http://www.opnarchitects.com/work/popoli-ristorante-sullivans-bar/) is one that my dad worked for, but even though I remember him taking us to visit the building in the late 80s, I don’t think that he was still there during the 1991 restoration.