Louis Henry Sullivan was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism". He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd
Sullivan in c. 1895
Prudential Building, also known as the Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York, 1894
Sullivan in 1919, painting by Frank A. Werner
Ornamentation on the World's Fair Transportation Building, Chicago, 1893–94
The Peoples Savings Bank in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was designed by Louis Sullivan. It was the second of a number of small "jewel box" banks in Midwestern United States towns designed by Sullivan during 1