Box Seats, Auditorium Theatre
- Title:
- Box Seats, Auditorium Theatre
- Collection:
- Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection
- Creator:
- Adler and Sullivan (American architectural firm, 1883-1924)
- Creation Date:
- 1886-1890 (building)
ca. 1890-ca. 1895 (photograph)
- Location:
- Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
- Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 10035016
- Accession Number:
- 15/5/3090.00163
- Collection Number:
- 15-5-3090
- File Name:
- 10035016.jpg
- Materials/Techniques:
- albumen prints
- Subject:
- Architecture
Theater interiors
Boxes (audience spaces)
seating
balconies
arches
plant-derived motifs
barrel vaults
Curtains
Auditorium Building, Chicago, Illinois
photographs - Measurement:
- 23.7 x 18.8 (centimeters)
- Description:
- "The extraordinary engineering talent of Dankmar Adler and the architectural genius of Louis H. Sullivan created this building to reflect the cultural maturity of Chicago. Combining hotel and office space with a splendid theater designed for an opera company, the Auditorium was a tur ning point in Sullivan's career and a milestone in the development of modern architecture." Address: 430 S. Michigan Ave. (Source: City of Chicago, Chicago Landmarks website, )"It was the commission in 1886 to design the Auditorium Building in Chica go that marked the first period of Sullivan's design maturity. This project was a curious combination of a hotel and office block wrapped in a U-shape around a 3,982-seat auditorium for opera. Completed in December 1889, it is a 10-story-high building of granite and limestone with a 17-story tower. The noble arcaded exterior is very simple in profile, has little ornament, and owes much to the architect H.H. Richardson's design for the Marshall Field Wholesale Store, then recently completed in Chicago." (Source: Encyclopedia Britannica) Next door to the Auditorium Building is the Studebaker Fine Arts Building.
- Source:
- Data from: A.D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/adw/albumen.htm - Cite As:
- Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photograph Collection, #15-5-3090. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Andrew Dickson White architectural photograph collection
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in this collection are in the public domain and are believed to have no known U.S. copyright or other restrictions. The Library does not charge for permission to use these materials and does not grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute them. However, as a good scholarly practice we recommend that all patrons cite the Library as the source of the reproduction. For a more detailed explanation please read the Library Guidelines for Using Public Domain Text, Images, Audio, and Video Reproduced from Cornell University Library Collections at http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright.