Built in 1890, Rudolph Ganz Memorial Hall was originally a banquet hall located directly above the Auditorium Theatre. Ganz Hall is a collaboration of some of the greatest minds of their generation including painter Albert Fleury, designers Louis Millet and George Healy, and architects Louis Sullivan, Dankmar Adler, and Frank Lloyd Wright. The Auditorium Building, designed by Adler and Sullivan with their apprentice Frank Lloyd Wright, was originally built as a five-star hotel and opera house. It was filled with luxurious details including electric chandeliers, arches covered in gold-leaf stencils, hand-carved…
