Meet Your Guide: Ronnie Frey of @doorwaysofchicago Welcome to the Arts & Crafts Bungalows of Ravenswood Manor tour! On this tour, we’ll explore how Ravenswood Manor came to be and the people who shaped it. You’ll see plenty of Arts & Crafts bungalows with their classic Craftsman details, and I’ll point out the little design features that make them special. Along the
Meet Your Guide: Ronnie Frey of @doorwaysofchicago Welcome to the Arts & Crafts Bungalows of Ravenswood Manor tour! On this tour, we’ll explore how Ravenswood Manor came to be and the people who shaped it. You’ll see plenty of Arts & Crafts bungalows with their classic Craftsman details, and I’ll point out the little design features that make them special. Along the
Stop 1 Exterior Details – Studebaker Carriage Company Michigan Avenue Location Transition to the Fine Arts Building 1. Carriage Advertisement – The Driveway Series, Lake Shore Drive Edition 2. Studebaker Carriage Building 1887 3. Fine Arts Building 1898 4. Studebaker Starlight Coupe Stop 2 Lobby 5. 1852 poem titled “L’Art” by the French poet Théophile Gautier Stop 3. Studebaker Theater
Meet Your Guide: Ronnie Frey of @doorwaysofchicago 1-Tree Studio Building Tree Studio Building was designed in 1894 as artists’ residences and has been home to over 500 artists. Some of the great artists which have called the Tree Studios home include sculptor Albin Polasek, illustrator James Allen St. John; muralist John Warner Norton, painters Ruth Van Sickle Ford and John
History Of Graceland Cemetery William LeBaron Jenney – Father Of Skyscrapers Dexter Graves – One Of The First Chicagoans John Wellborn Root – Burnham & Root Peter Schoenhofen – Brewer George Pullman – Pullman Palace Car Co. Ryerson Family Mausoleum William Kimball – Kimball Pianos Louis Sullivan – Adler & Sullivan William Goodman – Goodman Theater Potter & Bertha Palmer
Meet Your Guide: Ronnie Frey of @doorwaysofchicago 1-Tree Studio Building Tree Studio Building was designed in 1894 as artists’ residences and has been home to over 500 artists. Some of the great artists which have called the Tree Studios home include sculptor Albin Polasek, illustrator James Allen St. John; muralist John Warner Norton, painters Ruth Van Sickle Ford and John
1. Art Deco History Art Deco Style World War 1 New Technologies King Tut’s Tomb Discovered In 1922 Art Deco Motifs Cubism and Bauhaus Movements Bank Buildings In America 2. Chicago Board Of Trade 3. Field Building – 135 S. La Salle St. 4. One North LaSalle Building Transportation Panel 5. Chicago Temple Seats approx. 30 people Deco/Mayan ceiling patterns
Fine Arts Building Previously the Studebaker Carriage Co. Manufacturing and showroom building. Converted into the Fine Arts Building – opened 1898 Studebaker Carriage Co Building Opened 1885 Architect Solon Beman – Romanesque Style Vertical Assembly Line Design Turrets/Towers Flags like Medieval Castles Hooded Rooflines Masculine Rough Cut Stones Fat/Squatty Columns Lots Of Arches Notice Auditorium Theatre not built to the
Stop 1 Exterior Details – Studebaker Carriage Company Michigan Avenue Location Transition to the Fine Arts Building 1. Carriage Advertisement – The Driveway Series, Lake Shore Drive Edition 2. Studebaker Carriage Building 1887 3. Fine Arts Building 1898 4. Studebaker Starlight Coupe Stop 2 Lobby 5. 1852 poem titled “L’Art” by the French poet Théophile Gautier Stop 3. Studebaker Theater
