Chicago Stock Exchange Arch — Attraction in Chicago

During the late nineteenth century, architect Louis Henri Sullivan (1856–1924) created a new and honest expression in the design of buildings, inspiring a genre known as Chicago School of Architecture. While many other architects adhered to fanciful historical styles which were very popular at the time, Sullivan created buildings that expressed their structural design, relying only upon simple and organic ornamentation to embellish their facades. The Chicago Stock Exchange Building, designed by Sullivan with his partner, Dankmar Adler, was widely considered an architectural masterpiece. Constructed in 1893, the thirteen-story building incorporated Sullivan’s signature ornamentation that combined geometric forms with expressions of natural foliage.

The Stock Exchange was demolished in the 1960s 1972 to make way for an aggressively bland office building that...

Superb reconstruction of Adler and Sullivan's Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Floor. Great quiet place in AIC to experience the work of America's...

This is really cool to see! Easy to get a good view from the street, you don't need to go to the museum (which of course, you should do:). Truly...