Three Arts Club
- Architect
- Holabird and Roche
- Year
- 1914
- City
- Chicago, IL
The Three Arts Club of Chicago was founded in 1912 as a home and social club for women studying music, painting, and drama, modeled on the Three Arts Club of New York. The club commissioned its own building from Holabird & Roche in 1914, which opened in 1915 at 1300 N. Dearborn Street with 92 residence rooms.
the building
92 rooms, 13,000 women. Over 13,000 women stayed at the Three Arts Club across its history, which ran continuously as residential housing for women artists until 2004, when the last residents moved out.
the architect
Holabird and Roche designed the Three Arts Club building, commissioned by the club in 1914 and opened the following year.
significance
The Three Arts Club was designated a Chicago Landmark (L-237) on June 10, 1981. In 2007 the building was sold, with the proceeds seeding 3Arts, a new nonprofit; the building itself is now owned by Restoration Hardware Chicago.
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