The Chicago Auditorium Building
Subtitle: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City (Chicago Architecture and Urbanism)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: November 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780226761336
Subjects: American history; Concert halls, arenas, stadia; Individual architects; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Individual Architects Of The 20th Century; Specific Public Buildings Architecture; Architecture; Michigan; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Architecture / Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Individual Architect; Adler and Sullivan; Chicago; Chicago Auditorium Building (C; Chicago Auditorium Building (Chicago, Ill.); Illinois; Multipurpose buildings
First sentence: Rarely in the modern period, either in Europe or in the United States, has a major city's identity been so strongly associated with the creation of a single monumental building as when Chicago's Auditorium opened in December 1889.