rustication

This is great! It shows the Studebaker factory/showroom building (built in 1885) before it added some stories and became the Fine Arts Building (in 1898). (The floors behind the arched windows were the showrooms for Studebaker horse-drawn carriages, and the smaller windows above were for the assembly of the carriages.) You can also see that Adler & Sullivan's Auditorium Building had not gone up yet, to the left.

Viewers interested in the modern-day history of this building may be interested in the following illustrated post: "The Fine Arts Gets a Face-Lift" on the website Celia Her City. I appreciate Cornell's making this magnificent photograph available online. Susan Barsy, PhD

Irina Hynes Susan Barsy Thank you for your contributions!

My wife and I were married in the courtyard and had our reception in the courtyard and coach house. The building to the south, along with a number of others on Prairie, is no longer there.

This is a very good picture, can I use it on my site? gek.lg.ua

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Lost American Architecture, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

This became the location of the Hay-Adams hotel.

Beautiful photograph of the Hay-Adams house--the first one I've ever seen. As the boxes added by Whitewall Buick indicate, the building comprised two residences: the diplomat and Secretary of State John Hay lived in one, and his friend and author Henry Adams lived in the other. Adams, a descendant of two presidents and son of diplomat Charles Francis Adams, was born in Massachusetts but took up residence in Washington after the Civil War, when he was a young man. He was the anonymous author of the political novel "Democracy" and a great observer of the social and political scene. He lived in Washington the remainder of his life.

This project has picked up a renew interest for CUL. Susan Barsy Tim Engleman Thank you for for all this information.