Auditorium Building

Adler and Sullivan built this between 1886 and 1890 as a single mixed-use block: a 4,200-seat theatre wrapped in a hotel and an office tower, with Adler's engineering carrying the load and Sullivan's ornament on the surfaces. It opened in 1889 and the theatre has been in continuous use as a performance venue since; the offices and hotel rooms now belong to Roosevelt University, which is why the OSM record classes the whole stone pile as a university building. It is a National Historic Landmark and the earliest of the firm's large Chicago commissions still standing.

Address

430 S. Michigan Ave.

Building Type

university

Floors

17

NRHP Registration

70000230

Category: Culture & History

Tags: adler-and-sullivan, 1886-1890, theatre, national-historic-landmark, the-loop

Coordinates: 41.8760613, -87.6251976

Part of Louis Sullivan's buildings standing in Chicago

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