Auditorium Hotel

Manufacturer: Bauscher Brothers
User: Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, Illinois
Distributor: Arthur Schiller and Son, Chicago
Date of bowl: 1929

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Notes: Located within Chicago's landmark Auditorium Building, the 400-room Auditorium Hotel was part of a complex multi-use building designed by architects Dankmar Adler & Louis Sullivan and engineer Paul Mueller. The building was opened in 1889 and dedicated by President Benjamin Harrison, with the hotel portion opening the following year. The common areas of the hotel featured some of the most innovative and eye-catching architecture of the day including elaborate mosaics, gold leaf and grand archways.

The building was described as "the grandest on the continent – prepared to meet the requirements of a great high-class hotel without regard to labor or expense" in "Picturesque Chicago and Guide to the World's Fair" (1893), although one design flaw was the fact that the hotel had only one bathroom for every ten guest rooms. During World War II, the Auditorium Building was used a processing center for military personnel, and in 1946, it was acquired by Roosevelt University. The Auditorium Building was named a National Historic Landmark in 1975.

The Auditorium Hotel's history is connected to that of the Congress Plaza Hotel which was built in 1893 as an annex to the Auditorium Building and originally called the Auditorium Annex when it first opened to accommodate visitors to the World's Columbian Exposition. It featured an underground marble passageway called Peacock Alley connecting it with the Auditorium Hotel. By 1908, the name changed from the Auditorium Annex to the Congress Hotel in order to differentiate it from the Auditorium Hotel.

White body with a pink rose vine and green stripe rim treatment. Topmarked with a green shield, featuring a bird with spread wings (possibly a Phoenix) with an intertwined "AH" in the center of its chest, and "Auditorium Hotel" curved below.

For related info:
Congress Hotel & Annex / Congress Plaza Hotel by Scammell China

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