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Ann Halsted House

Architect
Adler & Sullivan
Style
Queen Anne
City
Chicago, IL
Collection
adler & sullivan
Ann Halsted House
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain
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Designed in 1883 and completed by 1884 at 440 W. Belden Street, the Ann Halsted House is the oldest surviving residence designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, built years before the pair became known for skyscrapers. The brick house reads as Queen Anne in its pointed bay windows and detailed cornice and chimney brickwork, though its front facade carries a French influence.

the building

Early traces of Sullivan. Sullivan's hand shows in the dormers front and back and in the pediments on the sides, along with Queen Anne fireplace and railings inside — early hints of the ornamental language he would later make famous.

the style

Queen Anne, seen here in pointed bay windows and ornamented brick cornices and chimneys, though the front of the house reads more French in influence than the rest.

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the architect

This is the oldest surviving residence by the Chicago firm of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, built before the partnership's later fame for landmark skyscrapers.

significance

Added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 17, 1973, the house holds the distinction of being the oldest surviving residence designed by Adler & Sullivan.

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