Lorado Taft's Midway Studios
- Architect
- Lorado Taft
- Year
- 1890
- City
- Chicago, IL
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Lorado Taft's Midway Studios, on the University of Chicago campus at South Ingleside Avenue and East 60th Street, served as the working studio of sculptor Lorado Taft (1860-1936) from 1906 to 1929. Taft was one of the most influential American sculptors of his era, and the complex — a deliberately haphazard assembly of two converted barns and a Victorian house — grew as single-story additions joined the pieces together. Now a National Historic Landmark, it houses the University of Chicago's visual arts department.
the building
Barns, house, and courtyard. A two-story Victorian house anchors the north end, extending south through single-story sections to two-story barns, one gabled and one hip-roofed; the structures originally framed a courtyard open to the west, since enclosed to add more studio space.
the architect
Lorado Taft was one of the most influential American sculptors of the early twentieth century; the studio complex was assembled from existing barns and a house he adapted for his own use over decades of work there.
significance
Designated a Chicago Landmark on December 1, 1993, and a National Historic Landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
nearby
- American School of Correspondence
- Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
- Snell–Hitchcock
- Strand Hotel
- Frederick C. Robie House
- Arthur H. Compton House