History Monday today! Featuring this 1989 photo of the Harrington Institute of Interior Design on the 5th floor. The Harrington Institute of Interior Design was founded in 1931 by interior designer Frances Harrington, who offered a lecture series for design professionals and soon expanded to offering degree programs for design students. Harrington retired in 1959, and her student Robert Marks assumed leadership of the school. The Institute moved into the Fine Arts Building in 1962, and Marks added many programs and degree options to the school’s curriculum. Eventually the Institute’s classrooms, offices, and cafeteria encompassed five floors of the Fine Arts Building’s Michigan Avenue-facing studios. In 2002, the Institute moved out of the Fine Arts Building and into a new location at 200 W. Madison Street, where it remained until the school was closed at the end of the summer semester in August 2015. Today, this doorway leads into William Harris Lee & Company's sales room and works...