The Third Coliseum
The third Coliseum was built on Wabash Avenue, between 14th and 16th Streets, by candy manufacturer Charles F. Gunther, in 1899. It took the place of the transplanted Libby Prison, a warehouse turned Civil War prison that Gunther had shipped, brick by brick, from its original site in Richmond, Virginia, in 1889, and operated as a Civil War museum.
Gunther preserved part of Libby's facade, leading to the misconception that the Coliseum itself had once housed Union prisoners of war. (In fact, the only penitents to "serve time" within the Coliseum's walls were hockey players sentenced to the penalty box.)
From 1904 through 1920, this Coliseum hosted five consecutive Republican National Conventions, and that of the Progressive Party convention in 1912.
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