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The award-winning feature-length documentary about the revolutionary and brilliant Chicago architect Louis Sullivan (1856-1924). Known by historians as the ...
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Clip from the award-winning documentary on the Chicago architect Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) showing the Trading Room of the old Chicago Stock ...
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Excerpts from a Question & Answer session after a March 14th showing in Chicago on the new documentary on the life and work of architect Louis Sullivan.
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