7-599: The Chicago Beach Hotel was a luxury resort hotel located at 1660 East Hyde Park Boulevard in the Indian Village neighborhood of the Kenwood community area of Chicago , Illinois . The hotel was built in 1892 by Warren Leland and was one of many speculative hotels built to accommodate the hordes of tourists drawn by the upcoming Columbian Exposition of 1893 . It contained 450 rooms, with 175 bathrooms. The property extended to Lake Michigan . The building resembled
14-673: Is bounded by Lake Shore Drive to the east, Burnham Park to the north, 51st Street (signed locally as East Hyde Park Boulevard) to the south, Harold Washington Park to the southeast, and the Illinois Central Railroad tracks used by the South Shore and Metra Electric Lines to the west. Many of the buildings in the neighborhood are named after American Indian tribes including the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-designated Narragansett ;
21-496: The Hyde Park Hotel and probably shared architects. Many Chicagoans of high social standing became residents and members. The building had private access to the beach until 1915 when the city created an adjacent bathhouse. It lost its beach frontage entirely in 1920 when the shoreline was moved more than a block eastward with a landfill project that created South Lake Shore Drive. In 1921 a huge 12 story, 545-room addition
28-773: The Powhatan Apartments , a Chicago Landmark ; the Chippewa; and the Algonquin Apartment buildings. The NRHP site of the former Chicago Beach Hotel that now hosts the Regents Park is also in the neighborhood. The new location of the Hyde Park Art Center at 5020 S. Cornell Avenue is in this neighborhood. Carol Moseley Braun , former United States Senator and former 2004 Democratic Party Presidential Candidate , once lived in
35-718: The 5000 East End Building, which was the tallest building on the South Side of Chicago until 1965. The neighborhood hosts the Powhatan Apartments, the only 24-hour elevator operator building in Chicago. Regents Park's South Tower is the tallest building in the Kenwood community area. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the Algonquin Apartments, which are a set of six identical 14-story towers in
42-434: The war the building served as the 5th Army Headquarters. Fifth Army Headquarters moved to Fort Sheridan in 1963, leaving the building vacant until its demolition in 1970. The Regents Park apartments were constructed on the property in the 1970s. Indian Village, Chicago Indian Village is the small southeast corner of Kenwood , a community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois , United States. It
49-562: Was constructed on the eastern portion of the property. The original structure, by now outdated, was then demolished in 1927. The Algonquin Apartments, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , were built on the site of the original wing in 1950. The hotel closed in October 1942. On October 15, the new wing of the hotel was commandeered by the military, reopening on December 21 as Gardiner General Hospital, named after Ruth M. Gardiner . After
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