It goes back to his old days selling on Maxwell Street.

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It's interesting how quickly it fell out of favor, ... The children of the older families didn't want to live there, and neither did the new wealthy families. By 1910, many of the houses had been converted to rooming houses or factories.

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This kind of drawing was in a lot of Sullivan and Adler buildings, and once Wright leaves their offices, this kind of ornament disappears altogether, but reappears in Wright's independent projects. So this is probably his design.

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I fell in love right then and there before words were even spoken.

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Those old streetscapes didn't present a tidy appearance -- it was a real syncopation of signs and storefronts with neon and flashing lights -- and I think the planners of the '60s looked down on that kind of environment, ... The instinct was to clear everything out and start afresh. There were good things about that, but it was also done at a real cost to the existing street life.

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Everything in this building can be re-created. It can be done.

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