Learn how a building constructed for the Studebaker Carriage Company was later transformed into studios for artists, musicians, and writers. These studios housed imaginative women and men prominent in the Arts & Crafts movement, the Women’s Suffrage movement, literary and arts clubs, and progressive theater and publishing enterprises.
Experience the Art Nouveau murals on the 10th floor, the restored courtyard on the 4th floor, and many other treasures in a building that retains the look and feel of the early 20th century.
Photo by Eric Allix Rogers.
Staircase banister detail
Interior stairwell.
Column detail. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers.
Fine Arts Building Exterior.
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