Talk:Wainwright Building

Coordinate error
The coordinates need the following fixes: Wainwright Building 38° 37′ 36″ N, 90° 11′ 31″ W
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The historic Wainwright Building is actually located on Chestnut, between 7th and 8th. The coordinates, according to the Maps I displayed, is for the intersection of 7th and Chestnut. To be correct for the building, the coordinates should be adjusted about 50 fifty meter west. Thanks 75.132.31.246 (talk) 20:40, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Done. BrainMarble (talk) 03:42, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Sources pile
Size before our work 376

Websites

 * - some background about the architectural significance
 * - not that useful
 * - nothing super useful, although relevant because it proves it's a registered historic place
 * - calls it a "city landmark" as of 1972. That fact should be in the article.
 * - nothing useful
 * - great overview, probably could be mined for more additions to the article (reprinted from the journal Humanities).

News articles

 * "Cotton opened an office in 1964 at the downtown Wainwright Building and worked to restore what he called "one of the greatest landmarks of American and world architecture." according to his friend, Judge Tom Grady of the St. Louis Circuit Court.

Books

 * Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, and the skyscraper - looks possibly very useful, but all the good parts appear to be unavailable through Google Books
 * Skyscrapers
 * Louis Sullivan: the poetry of architecture
 * Louis Henry Sullivan
 * The American skyscraper, 1850-1940: a celebration of height - some interesting info about how the tripartite structure is modeled after a Corinthian column, which should be added (along with a good pic of such a column)
 * Here's where: a guide to illustrious St. Louis
 * Source Book of American Architecture
 * Art of the western world: from ancient Greece to post-modernism
 * Louis Sullivan, prophet of modern architecture - hard to get much from this one

first skyscraper?
It says here(Credo) that it was the first true skyscraper...Smallman12q (talk) 12:14, 26 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I believe that recognition typically goes to the Home Insurance Building. - Eureka Lott 16:55, 26 March 2011 (UTC)


 * It was part of the first generation ob skyscrapers but as Eureka Lott said its normally not considered "the first" --Guerillero &#124; My Talk   17:44, 26 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Korom says it wasn't even the first skyscraper by Sullivan. You'd have to come up with a somewhat arbitrary definition of "skyscraper" to make Wainwright the first. Dcoetzee 18:42, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Size
I'm not sure if we are going for a DYK. If we are We are at only 955 words. For a Full five fold expansion we will need to pull it up to 1880 words. cheers --Guerillero &#124; My Talk   20:08, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

I removed
all this:
 * Along with the Guaranty Building of Buffalo, New York, the Wainwright is among only two surviving Adler & Sullivan skyscrapers.
 * because the existence of the Bayard-Condict Building proves it to be wrong. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 21:29, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, that is not an Adler-Sullivan building. However it seems to me that the Auditorium Building could fill the bill, since it was the tallest building in Chicago when it opened. Carptrash (talk) 21:34, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I think the article should state one of only a few, or a number, if we have a reliable source to back one up, Adler and Sullivan skyscrapers. I think it's a stretch to call this one of two because of the Prudential (Guaranty) Building (Buffalo, New York) and the Auditorium Building. Of course, this depends on the definition of skyscraper we use, which is going to be highly subjective regardless. This is why I think it best to compromise on a less precise term, avoid prolonged discussion and go back to soaking in the mastery of Mr. Louis Henri Sullivan. IvoShandor (talk) 04:11, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

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