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Which architect advised Louis Sullivan to work for the firm of Furness and Hewitt?
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Louis Sullivan, detail of an oil painting by Frank A. Werner, 1919; in the collection of the Chicago Historical Society.
The architect who advised Louis Sullivan to work for the firm of Furness and Hewitt was Richard Morris Hunt.1
While Sullivan was in New York City considering his career path after leaving the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he consulted with Hunt, who was a prominent architect and the first American to study at the Ăcole des Beaux-Arts. Following Hunt's suggestion, Sullivan joined the Philadelphia firm of Frank Heyling Furness and Hewitt in 1873.12