The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science was the big science museum on the North Side before it merged with the Carnegie and moved into the Science Center.
For a while the Art Deco classical building, designed by Ingham & Boyd,1 was sparsely used for classes and other activities, but after the Carnegie moved everything into the Science Center, the Children’s Museum took over the building for a huge expansion.
- This is a revision. We had originally written, “or Ingham, Boyd & Pratt; Father Pitt is not sure when Pratt came into the partnership.” The answer to that, according to the very thorough timeline at the site of IKM Architecture, successors to Ingham & Boyd, is that Pratt’s name was added in 1946, when Charles T. Ingham’s son Charles S. also became a partner. It is likely that Pratt was already working for the firm in 1939, but the name of the firm was Ingham & Boyd when Buhl Planetarium was built. ↩︎
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