A terrific bit of Orthodox vernacular architecture stashed on a Chicago side street, Holy Trinity was designed by Louis Sullivan of all people. Built in 1903 and apocryphally inspired by a photo of a wooden church in a Siberian village (...probably not true), Sullivan designed this intimate, earthy home for a working-class orthodox congregation made up of rural Rusyn immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sullivan’s initial design actually specified a polychromatic color scheme, with the church’s stucco walls painted ultramarine blue to bright red. It's difficult to imagine today, but it was indeed (at least partially) painted according to Sullivan's specifications from 1903 to 1906.
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