Purdue State Bank
In 1914 the Purdue State Bank, the smallest and least expensive of architect Louis Sullivan's "Jewel Boxes" was completed in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States. Built on a tiny, triangular shaped lot the building makes the most of the small space alloted to it.[1] The typical Sullivanesque ornamentation is held to a minimum on this building, being limited to a few terra cotta panels, [2] in what Elia terms a "possibly feminine element of the terra cotta lacework".[3]
The building cost $14,600, although Sullivan's fee was only about 10% of that and barely covered his costs. A local paper at the time referred to Sullivan as, "one of the most noted bank architects in the United States."[4]
Other Louis Sullivan "jewel boxes"
- Farmers and Merchants Bank, Columbus, Wisconsin (1919)
- Henry Adams Building, Algona, Iowa (1913)
- Merchants' National Bank, Grinnell, Iowa (1914)
- National Farmer's Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota (1908)
- Home Building Association Bank, Newark, Ohio (1914)
- People's Federal Savings and Loan Association, Sidney, Ohio (1918)
- Peoples Savings Bank, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1912)
References
- ^ Morrison, Hugh, Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture, WW Norton & Co., NY, 1935 p. 220
- ^ Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, The Louis Sullivan Pilgrimage, unpublished manuscript
- ^ Elia, Mario Manieri, Louis Henry Sullivan, Princeton Architectural Press, NY 1996, p.159
- ^ Twombly, Robert, Louis Sullivan: His Life and Work, Elizabeth Sifton Books, Viking, NY 1986, p. 420-421
External links
- Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Purdue_State_Bank Purdue State Bank] at Wikimedia Commons