THREATENED: Chicago’s Last Manual Elevator at the Fine Arts Building to be ReplacedBy Preservation ChicagoDecember 31, 20230164FacebookTwitterLinkedinPinterestWhatsAppEmailPrint Waclaw Kalata, 63, manually operates an elevator in 2023 in the Fine Arts Building. Fine Arts Building / formerly the Studebaker Building, 1884 and 1898, Solon Spencer Beman, 410 S. Michigan Ave. Photo credit: Ashlee Rezin / Chicago Sun-TimesVintage Fine Arts Building elevators are worth saving; Some historic buildings embody intangible experiences that are as important as the buildings themselves, writes Tim Samuelson, the city’s cultural historian emeritus, Tim Samuelson, Letter to the Editor, Chicago Sun-Times, 8/30/23Video of manual elevator operation at the Fine Arts Building in ChicagoBygone-era Fine Arts Building elevators will soon be gone; In a building full of musicians, dancers and artists, the manually operated elevators make their own music — a sound soon to be silenced, Stefano Esposito, Chicago Sun-Times, 8/28/23ADVOCACYThreatenedMonth-in-Review NewsletterDecember 2023 Newsletter2023 Year-in-ReviewFacebookTwitterLinkedinPinterestWhatsAppEmailPrint Previous articleTHREATENED: Demolition Threat for Wheatland Building at 4435 S. Western BlvdNext articlePreservation Chicago Receives Friends of the Parks 2023 Advocacy Award
