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Wainwright Building - You Are Here

Wainwright Building - You Are Here

705 Olive (Union Trust) Building
In addition to the Wainwright, Louis Sullivan designed two other buildings in St. Louis, one of which still remains. To see it, walk two blocks north of the Wainwright Building to the 705 Olive Street Building (formerly known as the Union Trust Building), which was completed in 1893, two years after the Wainwright.

In the 1920s, the first two floors of the street façade were greatly altered from Louis Sullivan’s original design, which included a much larger arched entrance. If you walk into the west alley, you can see a rounded window that complemented the more ornamented round windows that were removed from the building’s front. Be sure to check out the terra cotta lions on the building’s cornice.

For more info on the 705 Olive Building:
http://www.builtstlouis.net/opos/705olive.html

Just a few blocks away, another building by Sullivan, the St. Nicholas Hotel (also completed in 1893), sat at 9th and Locust Streets. It was demolished in 1974. For more info on that building:
http://www.builtstlouis.net/opos/victoriabuilding.html