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CHICAGO TRIBUNE SECTION 1 MONDAY APRIL 1, 2002 Monday, April 1, 2002 DIGEST was in good shape, but several angels were missing thumbs. One lion head required a new jaw. Clambering around on scaffolding 13 stories above Bleecker Street last week, architect Stephen Gottlieb pointed out sections that have been patched and thumbs that have been replaced. The new pieces are virtually impossible to distinguish from the originals. "A lot of the contractors and designers of the day would laugh to think that we were doing all this work to keep their buildings intact," Gottlieb said.

"They didn't expect their buildings to last forever." Of the building's 7,000 terra cotta pieces, about 1,200 were repaired. Cracks were mended with fiberglass and epoxy, then sealed with a compound that matches the terra cotta's original off-white color. Only about 30 pieces were so badly deteriorated that they had to be replaced with new copies. "I've dreamt about working on this building for years," said Gottlieb, who lives four blocks from the building and walked by it daily for 20 years on his way to the subway "It's one of New York's best-kept secrets." NEWS SECTION 1 THE WORLD Sharon declares Israel at war with militants Following two new suicide bombings that killed 16 people, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Israel is in a war for survival and vowed to "uproot" Palestinian militants, page 1 Analysis: Weeks of intensifying violence in the Mideast have prompted virtually no change in the Bush administration's Mideast policy, page i South Africa, activists square off over AIDS Despite a court's order to begin providing an AIDS drug to pregnant women, South Africa's government has not yet acknowledged that HIV causes AIDS or backed down from its stance that anti-viral drugs do more harm than good, page 3 SULLIVAN: Bayard-Condict shows traces of design ideal CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 was built here. "The whole circumstance of Sullivan getting the job is kind of murky," said Tim Samuelson, cultural historian at Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs, who has probably delved more deeply than anyone into the building's genesis.

Completed in 1899, the 13-story Bayard-Condict was until recently an architectural rose in a thorny section of the East Village filled with drab warehouses and run-down housing. Sullivan, who designed Chicago's Auditorium building and the Carson Pirie Scott department store, believed that a skyscraper should be a "proud and soaring thing." That philosophy can be seen in the Bayard-Condict's strong, vertical columns, which sweep the eye skyward to an explosion of ornament on the building's cornice, where six female angels look down on the street 120 feet below with outspread arms and wings. Filling in the space between the angels are dense thickets of highly detailed geometric shapes, curling vines and twisting branches. "The building is extraordinarily important to New York," said Sherida Paulsen, chairwoman of the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission, which had to approve the preservation plans. "We don't really have another building like it." Architectural historians have puzzled over how and why Sullivan, who was famous by the mid-1890s, was selected to design a humble loft building in New York.

But considering the architectural climate in the city, it's unlikely he would have been chosen for a prominent project, such as a skyscraper in lower Manhattan or a major public building. Local firms such as McKim Mead and White, designers of the Columbia University campus and the now-demolished Pennsylvania Station, had first crack at such jobs. "In Eastern cities like Boston and New York, the architecture evolved from a more traditional, conservative approach," Samuelson said. "In terms of the radical, unconventional architecture of Sullivan, New York wasn't the best venue for that." Over the years, various theo-' ries have attempted to explain Sullivan's selection, but Samuelson, who has studied the architect's career extensively, tracked down newspaper stories that provide some explanation. According to these accounts, New York developer Robert Avery sought real estate and financial advice from a group of Chicago investors who helped put together the financing for the building and probably recommended Sullivan.

The architect supplied a design that he recycled from an unbuilt project in Cincinnati. By 1897, when he was hired, Sul livan needed the work. His already-sputtering career would soon decline precipitously as tastes changed and clients found him increasingly difficult to work with. He died penniless in 1924. For a long time, the Bayard-Condict's main tenants were a ribbon manufacturer and an artificial-flower importer.

As manufacturers moved out, the tenants in the Bleecker Street building began to reflect the neighborhood's increasingly edgy, arty feel. Occupants now include literary agencies, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Estee Lauder cosmetics company and the Rainforest Alliance, an environmental group. In 1996, the neighborhood's improving fortunes and rising rents prompted landlord Marvin Shulsky to seek city approval to restore the building. The yearly cycle of heat and cold had caused cracks to develop in much of the facade's terra cotta. Given, the $800,000 price tag and the government scrutiny that work on a registered landmark entails, Shulsky sometimes doubted the wisdom of undertaking the job.

"Why didn't I -leave well enough alone?" he said with a laugh. "But we knew it needed attention and doing things halfway is not the best way of doing it. This is a 100-year fix." The restoration was designed to save as much of the original facade as possible and prevent future damage. Expansion joints were inserted to allow the terra cotta to swell in hot weather. Most of the elaborate ornament at the top of the building i mmi i.

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