Buildings Are Our Story

                                                           THE WHITE STAIRCASE

 

The White Staircase in the 

   original Chicago  library is a 

fantasy done in all white marble inlaid with

mosaics composed of glass and semiprecious

 stones.  The panels depict the names of the

world’s great writers and thinkers throughout

history.  As the stairs sweep up one end of the building it

goes under bridges and archways before reaching the largest glass dome ever created by Tiffany & Co. at the top.  Today building has become the Chicago  Cultural Center after the library was moved

to a new home large enough to contain the expanding collection.