Remembering the deaths of Richard Nickel and Louis Sullivan
Thirty-eight years ago today (4/13/1972) photographer & preservation activist Richard Nickel died in Adler & Sullivan’s Chicago Stock Exchange Building as he was trying to save a few more pieces before the wrecking ball finished off the building. Nickel was my current age, 43. More info on Richard Nickel.
Interestingly, Nickel died one day before the 48th anniversary of the death of architect Louis Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924). I recently visited Chicago for the opening of the new Louis Sullivan documentary, Louis Sullivan:The Struggle for an American Architecture, by Mark Smith.
St. Louis is fortunate to have three works by Sullivan.
Two of the three bear the name Wainwright. No trip to Bellefontaine Cemetery is complete without seeing the Wainwright Tomb.
Here is the trailer for Louis Sullivan: the Struggle for American Architecture:
– Steve Patterson
That film is in Kansas City for the http://kcfilmfest.org, and I'm looking forward to seeing it tomorrow. Also, liked the Sullivan salvaged things in City Museum's “architecture museum” section.