The Chicago Auditorium Building

by Siry, Joseph M.

• ISBN13: 9780226761336
• ISBN10: 0226761339
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award from the Society of Architectural Historians When the magnificent Auditorium Building opened on Chicago's Michigan Avenue in December 1889, it marked Chicago's emergence both as the leading city of the Midwest and as a metropolis of international stature. In this lavishly illustrated book, Joseph M. Siry explores not just the architectural history of the Auditorium Building but also the crucial role it played in Chicago's social history. Covering the Auditorium from the early design stage to its opening, its later renovations, its links to culture and politics in Chicago, and its influence on later Adler and Sullivan works (including the Schiller Building and the Chicago Stock Exchange Building), this volume recounts the fascinating tale of a building that helped to define a city and an era.

Author Biography

Joseph M. Siry is a professor of art history and American studies at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Carson Pirie Scott: Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store, published by the University of Chicago Press, and Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	1	(8)
Ferdinand Peck, Chicago Politics, and Chicago Theaters to 1880	9	(54)
Theater Architecture and Social Conflict in Chicago, 1880--1886	63	(60)
Initiating and Designing the Auditorium Building	123	(74)
The Auditorium Theater	197	(74)
The Auditorium Hotel: Architecture and Urban Life	271	(60)
Adler and Sullivan's Later Architecture in Chicago, 1890--1894	331	(58)
Epilogue: The Chicago Auditorium Building since 1890	389	(12)
Appendix: Chicago Loop Properties of Philip F. W. Peck and His Sons, 1849--1896	401	(4)
Notes	405	(110)
Selected Bibliography	515	(20)
Index	535