No. 20 — Louis Sullivan
Bayard-Condict Building
| Artist | Louis Sullivan, 1856–1924 |
|---|---|
| Date | 1897–1899 |
| Medium | steel frame clad in glazed white terra cotta |
| City | New York |
| Location | 65 Bleecker Street, NoHo, Manhattan — extant; designated a New York City landmark |
Sullivan's only built work in New York is this twelve-storey loft building for the Condict Bayard estate, erected 1897–99 with a fully glazed white terra cotta skin.
Vertical piers run unbroken to a crowning frieze of winged female figures supporting a shield, carved in terra cotta relief — Sullivan's vertical aesthetic transplanted from Chicago.
It remains among the earliest and purest expressions of the Chicago School on the East Coast.
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White terra cotta piers rising like organ pipes to a frieze of winged angels against the sky.
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