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The Auditorium Building in Chicago is one of the best-known designs of Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler. Completed in 1889, the building is located at the northwest corner of South Michigan Avenue and Ida B. Wells Drive. The building was designed to be a multi-use complex, including offices, a theater, and a hotel.
- 67,699.5 square feet (6,289.49 m²)
- 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois
- 1889
Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan were commissioned to bring this lofty project to life. A young Frank Lloyd Wright was hired as an office draftsman and in the process of working on the massive project, he learned a great deal from Sullivan about the use of organic ornamentation.
The Auditorium Building was a pivotal moment in Louis Sullivan’s career, allowing him to shape the form of the monumental commercial block and to develop the organic ornamental vocabulary that would distinguish much of his later work.
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1847 The first permanent theatre to be built in Chicago, Rice’s Theater, opens on June 28. 1856 Louis Sullivan is born on September 3 John Mills Van Osdel, the man considered Chicago’s first architect, designs the first cast-iron building for the Lake Street business district. Nearly 110,000 people now live in Chicago.
Impressed by Wright’s superior drawing skills, Louis Sullivan hired the young architect to produce ornamental designs for the interior of the Chicago Auditorium. Designed and constructed between 1887 and 1889, the Auditorium Building housed a theater, offices, and hotel.
Quick Facts. The Auditorium Building is a ten-story granite and limestone building with a seventeen-story tower. When Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan completed the building in 1889, it was the tallest and most expensive building in Chicago.
Auditorium Building. The Auditorium is one of Chicago's architectural masterpieces. Built in 1888 on the northwest corner of Congress and Michigan, it combines Dankmar Adler's engineering ingenuity with Louis Sullivan's architectural virtuosity.
