THE WRIGLEY BUILDING

and NORTHWESTERN TERRA COTTA COMPANY

We think of the Wrigley Building as the grand architecture of  GRAHAM, ANDERSON, PROBST AND WHITE.  And it is.  Trapezoids. Towers.  The Clock, of course. Bronze.  And gleaming Terra Cotta. GAPW led the team.
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But designs for the terra cotta were not entirely generated by the Architects. Uncredited "Modelers"  from the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company are largely responsible for the play of light across the architect's surfaces..  And for the invention of those characters ....who inhabit the clay.

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