Hotels in buildings by Adler & Sullivan

Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan formed one of the most consequential partnerships in American architecture. Adler, a gifted engineer and acoustician, and Sullivan, the visionary who declared that ‘form follows function,’ together gave the world landmarks such as the Auditorium Building and St. Louis’s Wainwright Building — and trained a young Frank Lloyd Wright. Of the more than one hundred buildings the firm designed, only about twenty survive.

Their 1882 Jewelers Building on Wabash Avenue — commissioned by lumber baron Martin Ryerson the year after the Wainwright — is the only early Adler & Sullivan work still standing in the Loop, and the oldest building in Chicago to carry Sullivan’s signature floral ornament. A Chicago Landmark, meticulously restored in 2021 and celebrated by Preservation Chicago, it now welcomes overnight guests.