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Window The Auditorium And Tower Building

Window The Auditorium And Tower Building, Chicago, Illinois

Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924)

U.S.A., 1886-1889

Colored, colorless, and opalescent glass, molded glass "jewels," cut and assembled, painted; lead came

 

Louis H. Sullivan is acknowledged as one of the first American proponents of modernism in architectural design. The Auditorium and Tower building was built by the firm of Adler and Sullivan between 1886 and 1899. This Romanesque Revival style building occupies a full city block and originally housed a civic opera house, hotel and offices.

 

This window formed the upper half of one of four interior sash windows located in the hotel lobby, behind the front desk. The opened onto a light well. All the building's stained glass windows were designed by Sullivan and fabricated by Healy and Miller in Chicago.

 

This window is displayed and lighted with natural light.

 

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Uploaded on April 17, 2015
Taken on April 4, 2015