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Article: `Cliff Dwellers' Appeal to Save Club
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 17, 1994
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An increasingly nasty battle over Chicago's fabled Cliff Dwellers
Club spilled into the Landmarks Commission on Wednesday as
preservationists argued that Orchestra Hall renovation plans would
gut the club's penthouse "kiva."
Plans to extend elevators and air conditioning into the space
designed by architectural luminaries Daniel Burnham and Howard Van
Doren Shaw and turn it into a dining area for symphony donors would
destroy its historic aspects, argued club member Wilbert Hasbrouck.
No action was recommended by the commission's program committee,
whose members said the issue could be examined further as part of
plans for a new South Michigan Avenue historic district.
But ...