Louis H. Sullivan Structures Image Gallery
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Local Identifier
31
Medium
Color Film
Date Created
1992
Architect
Louis H. Sullivan;
Year Designed
1909-1911
Year Built
1914
Country
United States
State
Iowa
City
Cedar Rapids
Description
St. Paul's United Methodist Church is located in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Louis Sullivan was commissioned to design the church during 1910-1911. Sullivan lived in Cedar Rapids from 1910-1912 while he designed the church. Louis Sullivan’s original 1910 design included a gymnasium, highly organized Sunday school space, a dome of multicolored glass, and extensive exterior ornamentation. Its cost was twice what had been planned for, however, and rather than sacrifice his design, he withdrew from the project in 1912. Another architect, W.C. Jones, simplified the design after Sullivan left the project. The church as built in 1914.
Copyright
©1998 Carl L. Thurman
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Type
Image
File Format
image/tiff
Recommended Citation:
Thurman, Carl L., "[IA, Cedar Rapids. 31] St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. 02" (1992). Louis H. Sullivan Structures Image Gallery. 109.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/sullivan_images/109
Keywords
Buildings--Pictorial works; Sullivan, Louis H., 1856-1924--Pictorial works;
