Editing Louis Sullivan (section)

==Early life and career==
Sullivan was born to a Swiss-born mother, Andrienne {{née}} List (who had emigrated to Boston from [[Geneva]] with her parents and two siblings, Jenny, b. 1836, and Jules, b. 1841) and an Irish-born father, Patrick Sullivan. Both had immigrated to the United States in the late 1840s.<ref name="books.google.com">[https://books.google.com/books?id=KmvHQGSP3JQC&q=louis+henri+sullivan Sullivan, Louis H. ''Autobiography of an Idea.'' Mineola, New York:  Dover Publications, 2009 (reprint of 1924 edition), p. 31.] This reference illustrates Sullivan's adoption of the "Henri" spelling of his middle name towards the end of his life.</ref> He learned that he could both graduate from high school a year early and bypass the first two years at the [[MIT School of Architecture and Planning|Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] by passing a series of examinations. Entering MIT at the age of sixteen, Sullivan studied architecture there briefly. After one year of study, he moved to [[Philadelphia]] and took a job with architect [[Frank Furness]].

The [[Long Depression|Depression of 1873]] dried up much of Furness's work, and he was forced to let Sullivan go. Sullivan moved to Chicago in 1873 to take part in the building boom following the [[Great Chicago Fire]] of 1871. He worked for [[William LeBaron Jenney]], the architect often credited with erecting the first [[steel frame]] building. After less than a year with Jenney, Sullivan moved to Paris and studied at the [[École des Beaux-Arts]] for a year. He returned to Chicago and began work for the firm of Joseph S. Johnston & John Edelman as a [[technical drawing|draftsman]]. Johnston & Edleman were commissioned for the design of the Moody Tabernacle, and tasked Sullivan with the design of the interior decorative ''fresco secco'' stencils (stencil technique applied on dry plaster).<ref>[http://www.prairiestyles.com/lsullivan.htm Louis Sullivan<!-- bot-generated title -->] at www.prairiestyles.com</ref> In 1879 [[Dankmar Adler]] hired Sullivan. A year later, Sullivan became a partner in Adler's firm. The time at [[Adler & Sullivan]] marked the beginning of Sullivan's most productive years.

[[Adler and Sullivan]] initially achieved fame as theater architects. While most of their theaters were in Chicago, their fame won commissions as far west as [[Pueblo, Colorado]], and [[Seattle]], Washington (unbuilt). The culminating project of this phase of the firm's history was the 1889 [[Auditorium Building, Chicago|Auditorium Building]] (1886–90, opened in stages) in Chicago, an extraordinary mixed-use building that included not only a 4,200-seat theater, but also a hotel and an office building with a 17-story tower and commercial storefronts at the ground level of the building, fronting Congress and Wabash Avenues. After 1889 the firm became known for their office buildings, particularly the 1891 [[Wainwright Building]] in [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]] and the Schiller (later [[Garrick Theater (Chicago)|Garrick]]) Building and theater (1890) in Chicago. Other buildings often noted include the Chicago Stock Exchange Building (1894), the [[Prudential (Guaranty) Building|Guaranty Building]] (also known as the Prudential Building) of 1895–96 in [[Buffalo, New York]], and the 1899–1904 [[Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building|Carson Pirie Scott Department Store]] by Sullivan on State Street in Chicago.