We
wrote last year about how the construction of
Roosevelt's University's new vertical dorm uncovered, however briefly, a part of Adler and Sullivan's Auditorium Building that hadn't been seen in over half a century.
We've been spoiled down through the years by another open view of the Auditorium building from the southwest, courtesy of a surface parking lot that's been there since the days when the raptors were dropping off their dinomobiles.
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Now that's changing.
Under construction is Roosevelt's new 27,000-square-foot
Lillian and Larry Goodman Center, designed by
Solomon Cordwell Buenz. The two-level building is essentially a field house to support the university's athletic program. It was jump-started by a $3,000,000 gift from real estate magnate Larry Goodman, founder of the Community Discount store chain. Opening is scheduled in time for the 2012-13 academic year.
It's possible the Goodman Center may actually be the tallest structure ever to occupy the site. The classic Rand McNally
view from 1893 shows it as a vacant lot, and a
vintage postcard on the Chicago-L website offers a murky view of what appears to be either a single story building, or a sequence of plywood walls papered over with billboards.
The somewhat derelict self-park next door, however. endures.
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