Auditorium Building

1:2000 scale miniature paper model, about 2.25 inches wide by 1.5 inches tall

When it was completed in 1889, this massive building was a multi-use arts complex, including a hotel, office building tower and the acoustically perfect Auditorium Theater. It was the tallest building in the city and quickly made Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan famous as designers of a masterpiece.

Read more:

• Auditorium Theater website - historical timeline
• City of Chicago Landmarks info about the Auditorium Building
• Roosevelt University website - campus history
• WBEZ examines the difficulty supporting the heavy building on Chicago's viscous clay soil
• The Auditorium Building, by Jay Pridmore, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Pomegranate (2003)
• The Chicago Auditorium Building, by Joseph M. Siry, University Of Chicago Press (2004)