Starks Building

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The Starks Building is a 14-story landmark building on South 4th Street and West Muhammad Ali Boulevard in Downtown Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Built in 1913 at the site of the First Christian Church of Louisville, local businessman John Starks Rodes commissioned the 202-foot (62 m) building as designed by Daniel Burnham. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Its architecture fits the Chicago School (architecture) with Beaux Arts details. Cream-colored bricks are one of its signature features. It is decorated with classical motifs, including acanthus leaves, lion's heads and urns. It was originally a U-shaped structure, but a 1926 addition designed by the firm Graham, Anderson, Probst & White added a new wing to create a rectangular shape with a central sunlight well. At the bottom of the central atrium was a courtyard, and until 1984 it was covered with a Plexiglas skylight.