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Louis Sullivan (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2018
Entity authorityQ6688228 ↗
Source-derived summary

Louis Sullivan (1856–1924) was an American Modernist architect.

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“Louis Sullivan (disambiguation)” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Louis, Sullivan and disambiguation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1856, 1924—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Louis, Sullivan and disambiguation.
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“Louis Sullivan (disambiguation)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Louis, Sullivan and disambiguation provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 4, 2018. The linked authority identifier is Q6688228. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1856 and 1924.

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This entry incorporates text from “Louis Sullivan (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.