Tourist attraction
Fine Arts Building
Former carriage factory turned skylit arts colony, its courtyard atrium open straight to the sky.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Fine Arts Building in Chicago traces its start as the Studebaker Building, an 1887 carriage factory where finished carriages were lowered to showrooms below. It follows developer Charles Curtiss's pitch to turn the horsepower factory into a home for painters, sculptors and musicians, and the gutting of the center into the six-story Venetian Court. Look up in the atrium for the shaft of open sky the building never learned to keep out.
This audio guide was created using AI.