Cornell Store and Flats
- Architect
- Walter Burley Griffin
- Year
- 1908
- Style
- Prairie School
- City
- Chicago, IL
The Cornell Store and Flats is a 1908 mixed commercial-residential building on Chicago's South Side, designed by Walter Burley Griffin in the Prairie School style.
the style
The building reflects Griffin's Prairie School training, Chicago's homegrown early-1900s alternative to Beaux-Arts eclecticism, favoring horizontal lines over applied historical ornament.
More on Prairie Schoolthe architect
Walter Burley Griffin was a major figure in the Prairie School movement that emerged in Chicago in the early twentieth century.
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