The Dexter Building, also called the Wirt Dexter Building, stood at 630 South Wabash Avenue in the South Loop area of Chicago, Illinois. Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan designed it in 1887 as a warehouse and furniture store for the lawyer Wirt Dexter Walker. Before a fire destroyed it in 2006 it was one of the earliest surviving Louis Sullivan buildings, and it was regarded as a precursor of the nearby Auditorium Building. Chicago designated it a Chicago Landmark in 1996, and the city landmarks division called it an irreplaceable link in the chain of work of one of the nation's most important architectural partnerships. It was distinctive for its exterior perforated girders, which prefigured designs of about seven decades later. After the October 2006 fire the shell was too unstable to save and was demolished.
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in the South Loop area of Chicago, Illinois
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designed by the firm of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, and built in 1887
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the surviving shell of the building was too unstable to save and was demolished
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in the South Loop area of Chicago, Illinois
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designed by the firm of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan
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as a warehouse and a furniture store
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