Door, Chicago Cultural Center (Former Chicago Public Library Central Building), Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Door, Chicago Cultural Center (Former Chicago Public Library Central Building), Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1892-1897, this Beaux Arts-style building was designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge to serve as the main central library for the Chicago Public Library, as well as the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) to serve as a meeting hall, and a Civil War GAR Memorial. The new library was built around the same time as the 1893 Columbian Exposition World’s Fair, and was part of the “City Beautiful” movement of civic and public works that arose out of the fair, intended to improve the lives of citizens through beautiful design and uplifting spaces, as well as grand civic architecture. The building contains four stories at the north end and five stories at the south end, standing 105 feet tall, with an exterior clad in blue Bedford Limestone and a granite base. It stands on the west side of Michigan Avenue, across from the northwest corner of Grant Park.The building’s exterior features a base with small window openings, an arched entrance bay in the center of the Washington Street facade with a bronze trim surround and brass doors, a decorative coffered ceiling underneath the vaulted roof of the entrance, and a staircase with brass railings, and an entrance portico on the Randolph Street facade with fluted doric columns, square corner pilasters, brass doors with brass frames, a coffered ceiling with globe pendant light fixtures, an entablature with an architrave featuring reliefs depicting wreaths above each column, an ornamented cornice, and a rooftop stone railing. The middle portion of the facade features arched window bays separated by pilasters with medallions flanking the arches, above which the top portion of the facade features window bays above a band of stone belt coursing with greek key motif, with the windows being flanked by pilasters with decorative capitals, fluted engaged ionic columns, and an entablature with decorative sculptural reliefs that include lions heads, with the words “Chicago Public Library” on the north and south facades, and the words “Public Library of the City of Chicago Founded AD MDCCCLXXII (1872) Building Completed AD MDCCCXCV (1895). Above the architrave, the building features a cornice with dentils, egg and dart motif trim, and modillions, with the low-slope roof being enclosed by a parapet with open stone screens featuring a roman lattice motif. Inside, the building features several well-preserved historic spaces, with the Washington Street Lobby, or South Lobby, featuring a grand white Carrara marble staircase with green marble medallion trim, with a three-story vaulted space with white Carrara marble cladding on the walls, mosaics, and the Randolph Street Lobby, or North Lobby, featuring mahogany doors, a coffered ceiling, green Vermont marble cladding on the walls, a pink Tennessee marble staircase with decorative bronze railings, and decorative murals. Further inside the building are the Sidney R. Yates Gallery, which is a replica of an assembly hall inside the Doge’s Palace in Venice, which features decorative pilasters and a coffered ceiling, green marble wainscoting, and green marble trim surrounds at the doorways, the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall, which features a rotunda stained glass dome by the firm of Healy and Millet, inspired by Renaissance-era stained glass art, with Tennessee pink marble wall cladding, bays containing windows and mahogany doors with decorative arched trim above, decorative plasterwork on the ceiling, brass sconce wall light fixtures, and a mosaic tile floor, and a main hall with Vermont green marble wall cladding, decorative coffered ceilings, and arched bays containing windows and doorways, and the Preston Bradley Hall, which features Carrara marble cladding on the walls, mosaics on the pendentives below the Jacob Adolphus Holzer-designed Tiffany glass dome, with stained glass chandeliers, arched and sconce wall fixtures, arched openings between the rotunda and the adjacent spaces, which feature coffered ceilings.The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and was designated a Chicago Landmark in 1976. The building is also a contributing structure in the Historic Michigan Boulevard District, listed as a Chicago Landmark in 2002. After serving as the Central Library of the Chicago Public Library for over 80 years, the building became home to the Chicago Cultural Center, the world’s first free municipal cultural centers, in 1977, under the direction of the Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, Lois Weisberg. A majority of the items formerly inside the library were placed into storage at this time, and a temporary central branch was opened in the nearby Mandel Building, with a lack of funding preventing the construction and completion of the building’s replacement, the Harold Washington Library, until 1991. The building today is managed by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, and hosts special events, formal receptions by the Mayor of Chicago, over a thousand programs and exhibitions every year, and serves as the headquarters of the Chicago Children’s Choir. |
| 撮影日 | 2024-11-08 11:59:34 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Chicago, Illinois, United States 地図 |