What is the Museum of Science and Industry before the Great Chicago Fire?

Posted on December 25, 2009 by admin

Now the museum is called Museum of Science and Industry. What is it before the Great Chicago Fire? That’s the building called? And what other buildings that burned down in the Great Fire, and what is it today?

It used to be The Palace of Fine Arts.

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4 Responses to What is the Museum of Science and Industry before the Great Chicago Fire?

  1. ms bell says:
    December 26, 2009 at 2:44 am

    It used to be The Palace of Fine Arts.
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  2. Kman says:
    December 26, 2009 at 3:09 am

    The building was the Palace of Fine Arts during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Later it was the Columbian Museum which later became the Field Museum of Natural History. Has been the Museum of Science & Industry for many, many decades.
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  3. Lolly says:
    December 26, 2009 at 3:41 am

    That whole area was built up for the Colombian Exhibition – 20 years after the Chicago Fire. Before that it was dune grass and scrub trees.
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  4. Yergacheffe says:
    December 26, 2009 at 4:03 am

    It was probably a vacant unoccupied space at the time of the Chicago Fire of 1871.

    The structure where it now stands was built for the 1893 world’s fair, called the Columbian Exposition. It served as the Palace of Fine Arts for the fair.

    After the fair the building housed the Field Museum. But Field moved to its current location in Grant Park in 1920.
    From 1920 to 1930 the building was largely reconstructed to make it more sturdy.

    The Museum of Science and Industry opened there in 1933. Though ongoing interior renovation took place from 1930 to 1941.
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