Three Arts Club of Chicago

The Three Arts Club of Chicago was a Chicago home and club for women in the "three arts" of music, painting and drama.[1]

The club, modeled on the Three Arts Club of New York, was founded in 1912.[2] The first Three Arts Club residence, located at 1614 North LaSalle Street, had a restaurant and rooms to house sixteen women.[3] In 1914 the club commissioned their own building, designed by architects Holabird & Roche.[4] The new three story building opened in 1915 at 1300 N. Dearborn Street with 92 residence rooms.[5][6] It is listed as a Chicago Landmark.[7]

Over 13,000 women stayed in the club throughout its history.[8] Three Arts Club provided residential space for women artists continuously until 2004, when the last of the residents moved out. In 2007 the building was sold to developers.[9]

Mission

Three Arts Club was formed to be a social center and "safe and congenial" home for women studying arts in Chicago.[10]

References

1. Chicago's arts club is saved, The Prescott Courier, May 14, 1991
2. "Entertainment To Found Fund of New Three Arts Club Home". Chicago Daily Tribune. 14 January 1912.
3. "Society Attends Opening of the Three Arts Club". Chicago Daily Tribune. 1 April 1913.
4. Robert Bruegmann (1997). The Architects and the City: Holabird & Roche of Chicago, 1880-1918. University of Chicago Press. pp. 431–8. ISBN 978-0-226-07695-9. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
5. "Chicago's New Three Arts Club Opens Its Doors". Chicago Daily Tribune. 18 May 1915.
6. Issacs, Deanna (26 June 2003). "Kicked out of Heaven/Next Step: Big Bucks for Artists". Chicago Reader.
7. Chicago Landmarks: Three Arts Club
8. Wilbert Jones; Kathleen Willis-Morton; Maureen O Brien (2012). Chicago's Gold Coast. Arcadia Publishing. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-7385-9177-3. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
9. Three Arts Club of Chicago: An inventory of the collection at the University of Illinois at Chicago
10. "Entertainment To Found Fund of New Three Arts Club Home". Chicago Daily Tribune. 14 January 1912.