Chicago, IL: 1873 Exposition Building

Greg Rattin posted
A view north on Michigan Ave in 1889. Adler and Sullivan's Auditorium Building under construction on the left. On the right is the Exposition Building, designed in 1873 by William Boyington and built to proclaim Chicago's recovery from the fire. The Exposition Building was razed in 1891 to make way for the present Art Institute.

As comments on the above posting, Raymond Kunst provided the following four photos.

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Bob Busch cleaned up this image posted by Noach Hoffman
"The Grand Expo Inter-State" building was built soon after the "Great Fire." It was the early McCormick Place: a venue for trade shows and any other events to help jumpstart our city's economy. It didn't remain long as this was the site where the Art Institute was built. This 1872 stereoscope view is in the collection of the Art Institute.

Terry Gregory

Many more illustrations plus details of the building can be found at

https://chicagology.com/rebuilding/rebuilding016/

David Utech: Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan transformed this building into an opera-quality music hall for Ferdinand Peck, despite the fact that steam trains traveled just outside. Their accomplishments with acoustics led Peck to commission them to design the Auditorium Building, completed in 1889.

safe_image for Before McCormick Place- in 1872 the largest Exposition building on the continent!