John Augur Holabird and John Wellborn Root, Jr. were the sons of pioneering skyscraper builders who helped define the Chicago Style of architecture. Holabird and Root formed their own design partnership and created some of Chicago’s most impressive Art Deco buildings. For St. Paul’s City Hall in 1932 they emphasized the verticality of their Deco design with columns of windows linked by plain, flat black spandrels. The exterior is faced in smooth Indiana limestone into which relief sculptures have been carved at the entrances by Lee Lawrie, one of America’s foremost architectural sculptors.
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