Driehaus Museum

Richard H. Driehaus Museum
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Established2003[1]
Location40 East Erie Street
Chicago, Illinois
United States
Coordinates41°53′40″N 87°37′36″W / 41.89431°N 87.62654°W / 41.89431; -87.62654
TypeDecorative Arts Museum
Public transit accessCTA bus routes:
Routes 3, 10, 26, 36, 125, 143, 146–148 and 151
Chicago 'L':
Chicago Station
Grand Station
Websitewww.driehausmuseum.org

The Richard H. Driehaus Museum is a museum located at 40 East Erie Street on the Near North Side in Chicago, Illinois, near the Magnificent Mile. The museum is housed within the historic Samuel M. Nickerson House, the 1883 residence of a wealthy Chicago banker.[2] Although the mansion has been restored, the Driehaus Museum does not re-create the Nickerson period but rather broadly interprets and displays the prevailing design, architecture, and decorating tastes of Gilded Age America and the Art Nouveau era in permanent and special exhibitions.[3]

The interiors are replete with marble, onyx, carved exotic and domestic woods, glazed tiles, and stained glass.[3][4] On display are original furnishings from the Nickerson era along with American and European decorative arts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Art Nouveau furnishings and a number of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany.[5] The museum is named after its founder, the Chicago businessman, philanthropist, and art collector Richard H. Driehaus. The artworks on display in the museum are selections from the private Driehaus Collection of Fine and Decorative Arts.[3]

  1. ^ "Driehaus Museum opens: Modernists need not enter". Time Out Chicago. 2008. Archived from the original on June 19, 2013. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
  2. ^ Reid, Kerry (October 30, 2013). "Driehaus exhibit shows off the glory of Tiffany pieces". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  3. ^ a b c Spak, Kara (19 September 2012). "It's all in the details at Driehaus mansion museum", Chicago Sun-Times, retrieved 2013-04-25. Archived 2012-10-30 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Historic American Buildings Survey, Nickerson House HABS-IL-1052[permanent dead link‍]. June and July, 1967. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. Accessed 2013-04-25
  5. ^ Dwyer, Ann Elizabeth (03 November 2011). "In the gloaming, Gilded Age glamour", Chicago Tribune, retrieved 2013-04-25.