<Tr> <Th> Added to NRHP </Th> <Td> May 23, 1968 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Designated NHL </Th> <Td> May 23, 1968 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Wainwright Building (also known as the Wainwright State Office Building) is a 10 - story, 41 m (135 ft) red brick office building at 709 Chestnut Street in downtown St. Louis, Missouri . The Wainwright Building is considered to be among the first early skyscrapers in the world . It was designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan in the Palazzo style and built between 1890 and 1891 . It was named for local brewer, building contractor, and financier Ellis Wainwright . </P> <P> The building, listed as a landmark both locally and nationally, is described as "a highly influential prototype of the modern office building" by the National Register of Historic Places . Architect Frank Lloyd Wright called the Wainwright Building "the very first human expression of a tall steel office - building as Architecture ." </P>

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