Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room: Reconstruction at the Art Institute of Chicago
1893/94 (original built) 1972 (original demolished) 1976/77 (reconstructed)
Medium
Mixed media recreation of room
Dimensions
Room is roughly 5,704 square feet (not including gallery)
Classification
architectural fragment
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
156538
About the Artist
Adler & Sullivan, Architects · 1883–1896
Adler & Sullivan was the Chicago architectural partnership that laid the conceptual and structural foundations for the modern American skyscraper. Dankmar Adler (1844–1900), a German-born engineer celebrated for his mastery of building acoustics and structural systems, hired Louis Sullivan (1856–1924) in 1879; the two became full partners in 1883. Sullivan had trained at the Massachusetts Institut...