Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room: Reconstruction at the Art Institute of Chicago

Museum record 156538: Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room: Reconstruction at the Art Institute of Chicago by Adler & Sullivan, original architects; Americ…

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The metal-frame Chicago Stock Exchange building was one of Dankmar Adler and Louis H. Sullivan’s most distinctive commercial structures. The centerpiece of this thirteen-story building was the Trading Room, a dramatic, double-height space that was designed for the daily operations of the Stock Exchange and filled with Sullivan’s lush organic ornament and stenciled patterns. Despite the singular beauty of this room, it served its original function for just fourteen years and was occupied only sporadically…