Digitized Content from the Louis Sullivan Architectural Drawings of Bradley House | Illinois History and Lincoln Collections

The digitized content of the Louis Sullivan Architectural consists of nine blueprints of Louis Sullivan’s plans for the Harold C. Bradley House, located in Madison, Wisconsin.

Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) was an American architect known for his theories on architectural ornament and his work on steel-frame skyscrapers. Part of the wave of architects who came to Chicago following the Great Fire of 1871, Sullivan was influential to the Chicago School and Prairie School architectural styles. Sullivan designed the Harold C. Bradley House with George Grant Elmslie for Dr. Harold C. Bradley, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This house was built in 1909.

The digitized content contains nine blueprints of Louis Sullivan’s plans for the Harold C. Bradley House on University Heights (at the corner of Prospect and Van Hise) in Madison, Wisconsin.  The blueprints are dated July 8, 1909.

The Louis Sullivan Architectural Drawings of Bradley House, Madison, Wisconsin, 1909, was completely digitized in 2025. Items are available online at the University of Illinois Digital Library. A preservation copy of the items is available to IHLC and digital preservation staff at the Library Digital Repository: https://medusa.library.illinois.edu/collections/2369