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/PRNewswire/ This spring, the Driehaus Museum is proud to present the work of Los Angeles-based artist Theodora Allen in Theodora Allen: Saturnine. The. ....
/PRNewswire/ This spring, the Driehaus Museum is proud to present the work of Los Angeles-based artist Theodora Allen in Theodora Allen: Saturnine. The. ....
Inside the Murphy Auditorium Photo: Allen Bourgeois The John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium was built in 1926 for the American College of Surgeons (ACS) in Chicago. Designed by the firm Marshall and Fox, it borrowed heavily from the Chapelle de Notre Dame de Consolation in Paris. The auditorium was attached to the 1883 Nickerson Mansion, also owned by the college from 1919 until 2003, when the late philanthropist Richard H. Driehaus purchased the grand home known as the “Marble Palace” in its day for its lavish interior. After a five-year restoration process, Driehaus opened the mansion as a museum largely dedicated to the art and design of the Gilded Age, while the auditorium stayed in the possession of the college. “The idea was always there to join these two back together with a common purpose,” says Anna Musci, who was recently named the museum’s executive director, and this week the museum announced it had purchased the au ....
Driehaus Museum acquires historic Murphy Auditorium Driehaus Museum + Murphy Auditorium. Photo: Alex Brescanu. CHICAGO, IL .- The board of directors of the Richard H. Driehaus Museum today announced the acquisition of the adjacent John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium from the American College of Surgeons (ACS). Located at 50 E. Erie Street, the six-story, 32,193-square-foot French Renaissance-style building was built between 1923 and 1926 by the American College of Surgeons, which occupied it until 1997. In 1987, it was extensively renovated to add more offices, and in 2006 ACS completed a three-year restoration and began renting the ornate, three-story auditorium for public and private events. For the Driehaus Museum located in the adjoining Samuel M. Nickerson Mansion, originally built in 1883 and restored by Driehaus in 2003 the acquisition of the Murphy will make it possible for the Museum to expand its programmatic activities and capacity while car ....