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DETAIL OF EAST WALL OF BANQUET HALL AND LATERAL BRACING TO STAGE HOUSE WALL, LOOKING NORTHWEST. - Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL
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Roosevelt College (University); Auditorium Theater Council; Chicago Musical College; Taylor, Crombie and Associates; Skidmore, Owings and Merrill; Weese, Harry M; Snead and Company; Homestead Works; Reed, David; Minnesota Granite Company; Young and Farrel Diamond Stone Saw Co.; Hollaway, Charles; Fleury, Albert; Roosevelt, Frank; Harrison, Benjamin; Illinois Terra Cotta Lumber Co.; Adams, Milward; Illinois HIstoric Preservation Agency, sponsor; Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs, sponsor; McClier, contractor; Auditorium Theatre Council, sponsor; Kasprzyk, Mark, delineator; Schwartz, Leslie, photographer
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DETAIL OF EAST WALL OF BANQUET HALL AND LATERAL BRACING TO STAGE HOUSE WALL, LOOKING NORTHWEST. - Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Depicted place Illinois; Cook County; Chicago
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS ILL,16-CHIG,39-64
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Structure incorporated hydro-pnuematic sewage ejectors, hydraulic rams, moveable stages, "asphaelia" system, isacoustic curve, cyclorama, scagliola, & thunder machines.
  • Significance: The Auditorium Building designed by Adler and Sullivan and built 1887-89, has been cited by the Commission of Chicago Architectural Landmarks: "In recognition of the community spirit which here joined commercial and artistic ends, uniting hotel, office building, and theatre in one structure; and the inventiveness of the engineer displayed from foundations to the perfect acoustics; and the genius of the architect which gave form and, with the aid of original ornament, expressed the spirit of festivity in rooms of great splendor."
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-129
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-164
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N831
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-129,FN-164,N831
  • Survey number: HABS IL-1007
  • Building/structure dates: 1887- 1889 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1941 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: after. 1950- before. 1959 Subsequent Work
References

This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 70000230.

Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/il0091.photos.061131p
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
Object location41° 51′ 00″ N, 87° 39′ 00″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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