Lewis Institute

Building Lewis Institute Date 1895 Architect Henry Ives Cobb Location 1951 W. Madison St.; southeast corner of Madison and Damon (formerly, Robey) Sts. (current site of the United Center) Use by IIT Housed Lewis Institute and IIT, 1895 – ca. 1950 Current Use Non-extant Recognition HABS Listing 1960; IL-1208 Image Credit Photo ca. 1903 as published in Lewis Annual (yearbook), 1903.

The Lewis Institute building was located at the southeast corner of Madison and Damen Ave., in part because this intersection served as a transfer point for two of Chicago’s 19th century streetcar lines.