Wainwright Building, (St Louis, Missouri); 1891; Classical School
The Wainwright Building (also known as the Wainwright State Office Building) is a building that was designed by architectural firm Adler and Sullivan. It is a ten story office building, made of red bricks and is located in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. The name of the building was named after Ellis Wainwright, who was a local brewer, building contractor, and financier. Wainwright needed an office space for his brewer company called St. Louis Brewers Association. The Wainwright Building is currently owned by the state of Missouri. It is also considered to be one of the first early skyscrapers in the world. The style of architecture of the Wainwright Building is Classical School. In 2013, it was named as one of the ten buildings that changed the worlds because it was “the first skyscraper that truly looked the part” and Louis Sullivan was named the “father of skyscrapers”. (“Mapping PBS’s 10 Buildings That Changed America”) Although skyscrapers had already been built in New York an...