Let Keir Graff take you inside Chicagos Fine Arts Building a building that hides worlds behind its doors.&#160Exploring the Fine Arts Buildings warren of hallways is like stepping into a time machine. It&#8217s not a museumit&#8217s a place of work. The walls reverberate with timeless music. Sopranos soar up to the high notes as violin bows draw tunes from strings. Someone plays a piano so busily they must have twelve fingers. Dancers&#8217 feet thud against wooden floors. A tuba burps out "Ride of the Valkyries" as the doors of the manually operated elevators provide percussive slams. And more quietly, behind closed doors, painters paint, writers write, and luthiers shave soft ribbons from billets of spruce.In Chicagos Fine Arts Building, celebrated writer and Fine Arts Building tenant Keir Graff takes readers behind the scenes of this cultural hub. Initially conceived as a space for artists studios, a home for the citys working artists, the building was an immediate success, but the Great Depression brought a long, slow decline to the building. Graff explores the buildings history, its revitalization, and its cultural place in the city of Chicago. Featuring interviews with current tenants and access to the buildings archives, including historical photos and artifacts, Chicagos Fine Arts Building sheds a new light on this storied building and its long history.Other Chicago landmarks have more stunning architecture or are more perfectly restored, but none of them has...

Binding: Hardback;188 pages; Publisher: Trope Publishing Co.; Classification: AMG; Weight: 1190 g; Dimensions: 218 x 293 x 23

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