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The Fine Arts Building
The Fine Arts Building located on Michigan Avenue across from Grant Park in Chicago, was built in 1885, addition 1898, by architect Solon Spencer Beman. The building was designated a Chicago Landmark in 1978. Built by the Studebaker Company for the assembly and display of their carriages and wagons, this building was converted into studios and theaters for artists and craftsmen in 1898. The interior public spaces, including Art Nouveau murals on the 10th floor, remain virtually untouched from the 1898 remodeling. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Fine Arts Building was the center of activity for Chicago’s literati. Over the years, the list of famous tenants has included architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Fountain of Time sculptor Lorado Taft and author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum. Once home to The Saturday Evening Post and The Dial, the Fine Arts Building is also where Harriet Monroe published her magazine Poetry, giving American readers their first taste of Carl Sandburg, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. The fact that the building still has gentlemen elevator operators on staff only adds to the effect of time unmoved. One can certainly still feel the history in the walls of The Fine Arts Building.