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| | MPR: Louis Sullivan's Owatonna Bank |
 | | Sullivan designed the 10-story Wainwright building in St. Louis in 1891—the first building that looked like a skyscraper, and was built like one, with an all steel skeletal frame. |
 | | It was Louis Sullivan who coined the famous phrase, "form ever follows function, and this is the law." His motto: Form follows function - meant many things, but essentially that buildings should grow organically to fulfill their functions, almost like trees. |
 | | Louis Sullivan's other banks in addition to the one in Owatonna, can be found in Columbus, Wisconsin; Cedar Rapids, Grinnell and Algona, Iowa; West Lafayette, Indiana; and Sidney and Newark, Ohio. |
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