Talk:The Woman's Building (Chicago)

Women or Woman?

Congrats on starting this article - fascinating! But shouldn't it be The Woman's Building? Carbon Caryatid (talk) 11:17, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Thank youCarbon Caryatid! (head slap) I believe your are correct. I am pinging Xevus11 who has been extremely proactive and helpful in getting this page titled correctly. Xevus11, can you move it one more time? I will get the typos around the web later today. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 15:44, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

• It IS Woman's rather than women's. Look at the images. How can the article name get changed?----Sue Maberry (talk) 16:28, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know-in the future, you can just edit the link on the disambiguation page yourself, there's no need to ask first. If there is anything else I can help with, feel free to let me know. Xevus11 (talk) 18:24, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

 Done Thank you Xevus11. I am pinging Carbon Caryatid and Maberry to let them know you corrected the title. Thank you! Thank you! WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 19:04, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

What was the building used for?

Here's an example, albeit published in 1893: THE CONGRESS OF WOMEN, HELD IN THE WOMAN'S BUILDING,WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. Was this congress a historical parallel to the Seneca Falls Convention? From its preface:

THE object of the publication of this book is to present an account of some of the most important assemblages of women the world has ever known. As a part of the Columbian Exposition, the greatest event of its kind in history, there was a daily gathering of women, who, in a great building devoted to their uses, expressed their ideas regarding the social, business and political affairs of humankind and all that pertains to making a greater future for the human race. This book reproduces the ideas advanced by these women, who represented the civilized world. It is the record of most earnest and potential and practical assemblages of women. What is in these pages indicates what women are to-day. The book contains the addresses made by those representing the more active women of two continents. It is a book every thoughtful woman and every thoughtful man should possess, and must, from its very quality and the circumstances of its production, be part of the important data of future histories. No publishers' preface will aid it much. It is a book which will retain its place because it commands a status as describing an important part of one of the most important events in history. It may be that it was even the most striking part, since among the greatest problems of the times is aggressively prominent that of the relations of men and women in the work of the world and in the division of its profits and its honors. (my emphasis)

Carbon Caryatid (talk) 11:25, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi Carbon Caryatid. There is an existing page World's Congress of Representative Women that covers the congress. I was going to link it today, but when I came across your message about the typo in the title decided to wait. I agree that women's activities should be covered, but didn't know how to get going on that interesting combination of suffrage and non-suffrage points of vew held by the Lady Managers etc. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 15:51, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

still there?

sorry to ask what may be a silly question but does this building still exist? if no, what happened to it? if yes, what is it used for now, also where is/was it located? thanks, Coolabahapple (talk) 12:45, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

No, as with many world's fair buildings, it was torn down right after. This was the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago on the banks of the lake. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson describes the building of the fair and the Woman's Building. Great book. Sadly, all the art including a large mural by Mary Cassatt was put is storage and subsequently lost. Art historians have been searching for it, but it has never turned up. The Woman's Building was largely unknown until students of Judy Chicago discovered the catalog in an out-of-print book store in around 1972. This was at the height of the feminist movement and it was quite surprising to women to realize that in 1893, women's art had a whole building dedicated to it. The founders of the Los Angeles WB decided to name the new organization after that one as a reminder.

thanks Maberry, some words added to the article about this (maybe changing the "Legacy" section to "Destruction and legacy" might work), what do you think WomenArtistUpdates? :) Coolabahapple (talk) 08:40, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

OK. I'll look for a reference. ----Sue Maberry (talk) 15:56, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Maberry & Coolabahapple I added a sentence and reference too. The chapter in "The Fair Women" is interesting. Aside from the missing murals, the Board of Lady Managers got all the items back to the exhibitors in an organized fashion. The wanted to create a permanent exhibition but Mrs. Palmer had run out of steam by the end of the Fair and couldn't bring the project to fruition. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 19:54, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

thanks Sue Maberry and WomenArtistUpdates, this has been really interesting .... a pity we didnt make a did you know about it....Coolabahapple (talk) 02:27, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

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