Auditorium Building

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The Auditorium Building is a mixed-use early skyscraper at 430 South Michigan Avenue in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Built between 1887 and 1889, it was designed by Adler & Sullivan, the partnership of Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler. The building occupies the northern side of Ida B. Wells Drive between Michigan and Wabash avenues. It originally included the Auditorium Theatre, offices, and a hotel; the theater still exists, but the rest of the building has since been converted into classrooms for Roosevelt University. The building is a Chicago Landmark and a National Historic Landmark, and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Following the success of the 1885 Grand Opera Festival, Chicago businessman Ferdinand Peck formed a syndicate to develop a theater, office, and hotel building. The building was dedicated on December 9, 1889, and the hotel opened the next year. Originally, the Chicago Auditorium Association (CAA) owned the building...

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