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Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Summary
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
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000230
In 1857 Elisha Otis introduced the safety elevator, allowing easy passenger access to upper floors. A crucial development was also the use of a steel frame instead of stone or brick. An early development in this area was five floors high Oriel Chambers in Liverpool, England. While its height is not considered very impressive today, the world's first skyscraper was the ten-story Home Insurance Building in Chicago, built in 1884–1885. Most early skyscrapers emerged in the land-strapped areas of Chicago and New York City toward the end of the 19th century. In a building like these, a steel frame supported the entire weight of the walls, instead of walls carrying the weight called "Chicago skeleton" construction. 1889 marks the first all-steel framed skyscraper in Chicago, while Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri, 1891, was the first steel-framed building with vertical bands to emphasize the height of the building and is therefore considered by some to be the first true skyscraper. After an early competition between Chicago and New York City for the world's tallest building, New York took the lead by 1895 with the completion of the American Surety Building, leaving New York with the title of the world's tallest building for many years. New York City developers competed among themselves, with successively taller buildings claiming the title of "world's tallest" in the 1920s and early 1930s, culminating with the completion of the Chrysler Building in 1930 and the Empire State Building in 1931, the world's tallest building for forty years.
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