on Michigan Avenue and Congress Street is the Auditorium. built at it most of $3.500,000. of granite and brick, 10 stories and extending.
cu the longest front. 3G0 feet. It contains a large hotel facing the lake. and a beautiful theatre. The tower, occupied by a station of the United States Weather Bureau, commands a mag nificent view from its height of 270 feet. The main entrance, on Congress Street. leads through a beautiful court, splendidly decorated and with an elaborate mosaic lloor, to the grand staircase of marble and bronze. The theatre. which seats 5000 persons, is luxuriously furnished and dec orated with attractive mural paintings. The Fine Arts Building. Michigan Boulevard. is a centre of artistic, literary. and educational interests. It contains three auditoriums; Studebaker Hall. with a seating capacity of 1550: University hall, with 703 seats; and an assembly room. North of it is the splendid Romanesque Chicago Club House, and farther north the :Montgomery Ward Building,. with a tower which rises above the roof of the Masonic Temple. On the Lake Front Park, at. Adams Street, is the building of the Art In stitute, 320 feet hang and 20S feet wide. built of Bedford limestone in Greek style. The in stitution, dating from 1S110. was known pre vious to 18S2 as the Chicago Academy of De sign. It eontains a. library and lecture-hall. and collections of great value. some of which are loaned, including paintings, sculptures (both originals and reproductions), textiles, and an tiquities. Conneeted with the institute is a school of art instruction (see below). On the opposite side of the avenue, to the north. is the magnificent structure of the Chicago Public Li brary, built 1893-97. It is a successful rendering
of the type of architecture. and cost $2.125.000. The interior is enriched with Sienna and Carrara marble, with 10.000 square feet of glass mosaic, and with beautiful frescoes, mottoes, etc. The library has been planned to accommodate 2.000,000 volumes, and an illus tration of its extraordinary size may be found in the delivery-room, 139 by 49 feet. The build ing contains also a large G. A. R. Memorial Hall.
fin the North Side, on Walton Place, is the Newberry Library, an imposing structure of steel and granite, which. when completed accord ing to the projected plan, will occupy an entire square, and afford room for 4,000,000 volumes. 1tther institutions of allied character, which have noteworthy buildings, are the Chicago His torical Society, in a stone edifice at ontario Street and Dearborn Avenue—the repository of a fine collection of paintings and interesting his torical relies, and of a valuable library; and the Chicago Academy of Sciences in Lincoln Park. The buildings of the University of Chicago, of which twenty or more have zilready been erected, are planned to cover a plot of 40 acres. bordering the :Midway Plaisan•e Jackson and Washington parks. They are built principally of limestone, in Gothic type. Other notable buildings are the Union, the Chicago and North western, Dearborn, and the Grand Central Rail road stations; and among ecclesiastical edifices arc the Cathedral of the Maly Name (1Zoinan Catholic). the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (Protestant Episcopal), and the Seeond Presbyterian. Plymouth I Congregational ) . Church of Christ (Christian Scienee), and the First Unitarian churches.