Built in 1905, this is a solid-citizen building of no great merit, with one brilliant exception: its decoration. It's the best example of Louis Sullivan's organic / geometric ornamentation downtown. Louis thought everything would look like this, and should look like this, if only everyone listened to him. They didn't, of course; architecture had shaken off the heavy Richardsonian model and was in the mood for something classical, something that legitimized the new world with the architectural vocabulary of the old. To some, Sullivan's stuff must have looked too idiosyncratic to work, too fevered, too new.