Chicago’s last manually operated public elevators near their last ride

CHICAGO (WGN) — The Fine Arts Building on South Michigan Avenue is a living museum where art is displayed and made behind every door on every floor. It’s home to the Studebaker Theater, which began as a showroom for the company’s horse-drawn carriages, and it’s where W.W. Denslow illustrated ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.’

Working in the building are puppeteers, painters, craftsmen and piano teachers. But one form of art at the Romanesque building dedicated in 1898 will soon become an artifact: what are believed to be the city’s last-existing manually operated elevators open to the public are being phased

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