THREE COPPER-PLATED CAST-IRON STAIR BALUSTERS FROM THE STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING, CHICAGO, CIRCA 1894

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LOUIS H. SULLIVAN (1852-1924)
Three Copper-Plated Cast-Iron Stair Balusters from the Stock Exchange Building, Chicago, circa 1894
in a modern oak frame
each panel: 23 5/8 in. (60 cm.) high, 10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) wide (3)

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With Prairie Avenue Bookshop, Chicago.

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The Chicago Stock Exchange, extant from 1894 to 1972, was one of Adler & Sullivan's most exquisite structures. Noteworthy for the firm's inspired solution to the newly arisen issue of an appropriate form for the "tall building," it was replete with some of Louis Sullivan's finest organic ornamental detailing. Evident in the balustrades offered here, Sullivan deeply believed that ornamentation should be based in nature and reveal its underlying geometry. In the early 1970s the news of the Stock Exchange's impending demolition was the catalyst for the formation of the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois.

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cf. B. A. Spencer, ed., The Prairie School Tradition, New York, 1979, p. 31 for an image of a baluster of this design.

P. Saliga, ed. Fragments of Chicago's Past: The Collection of Architectural Fragments at The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 1990, p. 141 for an image of a baluster of this design.