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ARMOUR INSTITUTE |
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By Walter Hendricks |
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| In 1893, the trustees of Armour
Institute and the directors of the Art
Institute of Chicago held a significant meeting and made the momentous
decision to join hands and run the architectural branches of the two
institutions in conjunction with each other. The new school just formed
was to be known as the Chicago School of Architecture of the Armour
Institute, the scientific courses to be taught by Armour and the artistic
courses by the Art Institute. One of the leading engineering magazines declared that "the establishment within a single year of two great institution of learning, the one a great university [the University of Chicago] and the other which promises to become a great school of technology [Armour Institute], is an event unique in the history of modern cities, and of which Chicago, at present occupied with her great World’s Fair, will one day be quite proud." In this same year the Field Columbian Museum and the Chicago Academy of Sciences were also established, and the Chicago Art Institute enlarged. This astonishing development in higher education and the growth of educational institutions in the World’s Fair period was referred to by one Chicago newspaper as "on a scale worthy to be called ‘Chicagoan’". It added, "the youth who are to make the future Chicago the ideal city of the world, the real center of the arts and belles-lettres, no longer have to seek training elsewhere..." and referred to Mr. Armour as one of the first to feel the impulses of the new educational movement in Chicago and one of the most practical in giving it realization. |
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| Page last updated on May 17, 2000. |
