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Guaranty Building, Buffalo, N.Y., by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, 1894–95.
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Guaranty Building

building, Buffalo, New York, United States
Also known as: Prudential Building

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design by Sullivan

  • Louis Sullivan
    In Louis Sullivan: Work in association with Adler

    The 16-story Guaranty (now Prudential) Building in Buffalo by Adler and Sullivan is similar except that its surface is sheathed in decorative terra-cotta instead of red brick. Both buildings are among the best of Adler and Sullivan’s work.

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  • James Paine and Robert Adam: Kedleston Hall
    In Western architecture: Construction in iron and glass

    …of the skyscraper in the Prudential Building, in Buffalo, New York (1894–95), and he developed the theory for it in an essay published in Lippincott’s Magazine (1896). That theory received even more dramatic expression in the Schlesinger-Mayer Department Store (later Carson Pirie Scott) in Chicago (1898–1904), in which the towered…

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