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The Franke Reading Room at the Art Institute of Chicago
of the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries.
Originally two separate libraries, the Ryerson Library and the Burnham Library of Architecture, the two merged in 1957.
The Franke Reading Room, the original Ryerson Library, was designed by the Boston firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, at a former courtyard in...
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The Fullerton Hall at The Art Innstitute of Chicago
Completed: 1898
Stained glass dome designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Stained glass dome completed: 1901.
In 1901, the Fullerton Hall's pendant space, the Ryerson Library was completed as well.
Built in 1898, Fullerton Hall was added to the north side of the museum's main-floor lobby...
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KOKOMO OPALESCENT GLASS: America's Oldest Art Glass Company
Art glass are fascinating! They sparkle and shine in rainbow colors. Art glass domes and windows have decorated the some of most beautiful buildings, churches and cathedrals. While photographing some landmark buildings in Chicago, I learnt that many of the decorative art glass were made in Kokomo, Indiana. Like the impressive ceiling at the Auditorium...
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The Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows, which opened in 2000, was closed down in October 2014. It was America's first museum dedicated exclusively to stained glass windows. The museum was a millennium gift to the people of Chicago from Maureen and Edward Byron Smith, Jr., and their sons Edward and Peter Smith. Don't know the fate of the stained glass windows since...
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Richard H. Driehaus Museum in Nickerson Mansion
The museum was open to public on June 8, 2008.
Location: 40 East Erie Street on the Near North Side in Chicago, Illinois, near the Magnificent Mile.
The building was made in 1883, as a residence for Samuel Mayo Nickerson, a wealthy Chicago banker. The Driehaus Museum is housed within the historic Nickerson...
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The Richard H. Driehaus Museum is located in the historic Samuel M. Nickerson House.
The house was originally built in 1883 as residence of a wealthy Chicago distillery and banking magnate named Samuel Mayo Nickerson. The limestone and sandstone townhouse was built at the cost of $450,000. It was then the top price ever paid for a Chicago residence.
In 1900, Lucius George Fisher purchases...
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Persian Lily Pads - by Dale Chihuly
In 2001 artist Dale Chihuly transformed the Conservatory with his colorful glass sculptures in the exhibition"Chihuly in the Park: A Garden of Glass." In fact Chihuly's "Garden Cycle" which began here at the Garfield Park Conservatory, was later exhibited at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, near London, in 2005, and at more than 10...
Above Image, from left: Fullerton Hall at Art Institute of Chicago, Preston Bradley Hall at Chicago Cultural Center, and Macys [earlier Marshall Field's ] at State Street.
Tiffany in Chicago
Louis Comfort Tiffany [1848-1933]: One of America's most acclaimed artists revolutionized the art of stained glass windows, not only through his innovative glass and techniques of production, but also by bringing changes...
Above Image: Eighteen Lily Lamp, Wisteria Lamp and Nautilus Shell Lamp. All from the exhibition, "Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection"
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection
Temporary Exhibition: September 2013 - June 2014. Extended till January 4, 2015 , due to its huge popularity.
Location: Driehause Museum at Nickerson House [40 E. Erie Street]
Printer's History - Designed and fabricated in Chicago by Thomas A. O'Shaughnessy [1870-1956]
114" H x 94" W [Perhaps the largest stained glass window piece at the Smith Museum]
Location: Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows at Navy Pier, Chicago.
The window is a memorial to Henry Olendorf Shepard, printer...
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