Auditorium Building
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 | Auditorium Building |
| Designer | Louis H. Sullivan , Architect |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Date | 1886 to 1890 |
| Building Type | civic auditorium |
| Construction System | Bearing masonry |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | Urban |
| Architectural Style | Eclectic Romanesque Revival, Richardsonian |
| Street Address | 41.876016 -87.625108, 430 South Michigan Avenue Walk Score |
| Notes | with Dankmar Adler |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Auditorium_Building.html |
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10 stories high, load-bearing masonry construction.
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- Werner Blaser and Monica Stucky. Drawings of Great Buildings. Boston: Birkhauser Verlag, 1983. ISBN 3-7643-1522-9. LC 83-15831. NA2706.U6D72 1983. plan and section drawings, p156.
- Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. ISBN 0-442-21668-8. LC 84-3543. NA2750.C55 1984. plan drawing, p112. elevation, p112. upper floor plan, p112. site plan, p112. diagrams, p113. — Updated edition available at Amazon.com
- Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. London: The Butterworth Group, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. LC 86-31761. NA200.F63 1987. discussion, p1240. exterior photo, p1241. — The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com
- Wim De Wit, ed. Louis Sullivan: The Function of Ornament. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. Exterior photo of building from street, f32, p36. Interior photo of auditorium, f36, p41.
- Leland M. Roth. A Concise History of American Architecture. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1979. ISBN 0-06-430086-2. NA705.R67 1979. exterior photo, f156, p180. discussion, p179-180.
