sentences:  The urban legend is that Samuel Insull built this opera house for his wife, who was not hired by New York's Metropolitan Opera.Variations of this urban legend also often cite that the "chair" represented by the building's architecture faces West, which was intended to be symbolic of Insull turning his back to New York City's Metropolitan Opera from the geographic standpoint of Chicago.The fact, however, is that Samuel Insull's wife was not an opera singer.