Louis Henry Sullivan Aesthetic Movement Cast Architectural Element of formed concrete and plaster for the Garrick Theatre in the Schiller building Chicago from the home of Larry Belles. Rochester NY former curator of the Strong Museum and county historian
Louis Henry Sullivan Aesthetic Movement Cast Architectural Panel in Plaster and Cement, approx. 29" x 27"
Originally named the schiller theater, the mixed-use building was designed by the architectural firm of adler & sullivan (louis sullivan and dankmar adler) in 1891 at 64 west randolph street. it was intended to serve german americans, and was funded by the german opera company. the office building was named after friedrich schiller, the german playwright; it was then briefly known as the dearborn theatre (from 1898-1903); and finally, in 1903 it was renamed the garrick theatre. at the time of construction, the schiller was one of the tallest buildings in chicago, and is still widely considered one of the greatest collaborations between the two architects. the I-shaped building consisted of a 17-story tower flanked by a 9-story wing with oriel windows on either side. the exterior of the building was sheathed in buff-colored ornamental terra cotta shaped into a variety of patterns, and intertwining with lush, leafy forms. the sculptor richard bock supplied busts of famous german poets, artists and philosophers for the exterior as well. the interior of the 1,286-seat auditorium contained a series of striking vaults, that were faced in plaster panels. these featured a repeated star-pod pattern in which central, star-like shapes are surrounded by borders of intricater intertwining vine and leaf forms. other plaster panels had interlocking or flat circles, all originally in a color scheme of salmon, green, gold, yellow, and red. the schiller saw many iterations and inhabitants: the german investors backed out of the project near the turn of the century and from 1898-1903 the building became the dearborn theater, showing vaudeville or touring stage shows. five years later its name was finally changed to the garrick theater under new ownership. between 1910 and 1950, the garrick building was leased, subleased, sold and put into receivership six times, but remained, nonetheless, a popular stop on the vaudeville circuit. simultaneously, and in symbiotic fashion, the early twentieth century saw the stretch of randolph street between state and clark streets become a national center for popular sheet-music publishers; filling the garrick and neighboring office buildings, they sold their new material to traveling vaudevillians. in 1950, the theater was closed and converted into a television studio. seven years later, it was sold to balaban and katz, who reopened the building as a movie theater. eventually balaban and katz no longer considered the architectural gem commercially viable,When adler and sullivan's garrick theater (1892) was handed the death sentence in 1960, atlas wrecking began by creating a massive opening or makeshift "trash chute" through the building to dump debris from top to bottom.this included smashing a huge hole in the theater's proscenium where nickel, vinci, and norris were working - salvaging as much ornament plaster in and around the proscenium vaults.
approx. 29"W x 27"H



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weathered but sound and presents well