Chicago Beach Hotel

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Chicago Beach Hotel, postcard (1910)

The Chicago Beach Hotel was a luxury hotel located at 1660 East Hyde Park Boulevard in the Indian Village area of Kenwood , a district of Chicago , Illinois .

The hotel was built by Warren Leland in 1892 and was one of the speculative hotels built to accommodate the tourists who attended the Columbian Exposition of 1893 . The hotel had 450 rooms with 175 bathrooms. The property extended to Lake Michigan . Its architecture was reminiscent of the Hyde Park Hotel, financed by Paul Cornell , which probably had the same architects. Numerous wealthy Chicago residents became residents of the hotel. There was private access to the beach from the building until the city established a bathing establishment in 1915. The hotel completely lost its beachfront location in 1920 when a land reclamation project moved the shoreline more than a block to the east and created South Lake Shore Drive .

Chicago Beach Hotel, postcard (1911)

In 1921, a large, twelve-story extension with 545 rooms was built in the eastern part of the property. The original building, which no longer met the current standard, was demolished in 1927. The Algonquin Apartments, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , were built in its place in 1950 .

During the Second World War , the new wing of the hotel was confiscated by the military and used as the Gardiner General Hospital . After the war, the headquarters of the Fifth United States Army were housed in the building. It was demolished in the early 1970s. The Regents Park residential complex was built in its place .

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Press Club of Chicago: Official Reference Book 1922, p. 202 (Retrieved October 4, 2014).
  3. ↑ a b Hudson, L .: Hyde Park . Arcadia, 2003, ISBN 9780738531984 , p. 101 (Retrieved October 4, 2014).
  4. ↑ a b Chicago Beach Hotel, c.1903 . In: The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago . Chicago Historical Society. 2005. Retrieved March 26, 2007.
  5. ^ Bathers at the Chicago Beach Hotel, 1913 . In: The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago . Chicago Historical Society. 2005. Retrieved March 26, 2007.
  6. ^ The Milwaukee Sentinel - Google News Archive Search . news.google.com. Retrieved October 4, 2014.
  7. ^ Davis, SOC; Vinci, J .: Chicago's Historic Hyde Park . University of Chicago Press, 2013, ISBN 9780226925196 , p. 121 (Retrieved October 4, 2014).
  8. ^ Davis, SOC; Vinci, J .: Chicago's Historic Hyde Park . University of Chicago Press, 2013, ISBN 9780226925196 , p. 443 (Retrieved October 4, 2014).
  9. ^ Regents Park . Emporis.com. Retrieved March 26, 2007.

Coordinates: 41 ° 48 '10 "  N , 87 ° 35' 5.3"  W.