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Steinway Hall (1896–1970) was an 11-story office building, and ground-floor theater (later cinema), located at 64 E. Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Capri Cinema )〕 The theater had at least 14 different names over the years, opening in 1896 as the Steinway Music Hall, and closing in the late 1960s as Capri Cinema. The building for a time in the early 1900s was the offices and nucleus of a group of famous Chicago architects that included a young Frank Lloyd Wright. These young architects, inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement and the philosophies of Louis Sullivan, formed what would become known as the Prairie School.〔 〕 ==Building history== Steinway Hall was an 11-story (then) skyscraper designed by Dwight H. Perkins and opened in 1896.〔 The building was built by the piano makers Steinway & Sons and the theater was one of many Steinway Halls around the world designed to showcase company products.〔 Beginning in the winter of 1896-97, the building's 11th floor housed the offices of a group of important architects that included Dwight H. Perkins, Robert C. Spencer, Frank Lloyd Wright and Myron Hunt.〔 It would be for the young Wright his first experience working with a group of professional architects.〔 He would maintain an office there until ca. 1908.〔Wright had an office at Steinway Hall until 1908, according to The Lakeside City Directory of Chicago which shows the downtown offices which Wright leased year by year. This is verified in the secondary source: Grant Carpenter Manson, (''Frank Lloyd Wright, Volume 1'' ), Reinhold, 1958. Page 215〕〔 See footnote #107〕 The building and offices became a central location for architects including Webster Tomlinson, Irving Pond and Allen Bartlitt Pond, Adamo Boari, Walter Burley Griffin and Birch Long.〔 The building served as the nucleus of a group of architects known as The Eighteen, a name coined by Wright to signify a group who gathered for meals to discuss matters of mutual interest. Others outside Steinway Hall who met with the group included Arthur Dean and George Dean, Hugh Garden, Arthur Heun, Alfred Granger, Richard E. Schmidt and Howard Shaw.〔 Around 1925, the Chicago Musical College moved into the building.〔From written by Don Draganski, edited by Brian Wis.〕 One hundred and twenty-five names appeared on the faculty roster for that year, and the School opened three dormitory floors for students.〔 The College stayed there until 1954, when it merged with Roosevelt University's School of Music and moved operations to the Auditorium Building.〔 The building was demolished in 1970.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steinway Hall (Chicago)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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