The Flat Iron Building is located in the Wicker Park district of West Town , Chicago, Illinois . The building is located at the intersection of Milwaukee Avenue, North Avenue, and Damen Avenue. Since the 1980s, it has served as an artists colony, and features visual artists and musicians of all disciplines.
6-670: The building was the historic centerpiece of the annual Around the Coyote arts festival held in the neighborhood each summer. It is located across the street from the Northwest Tower . 41°54′37″N 87°40′37″W / 41.91028°N 87.67694°W / 41.91028; -87.67694 This article related to a building or structure in Chicago is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Northwest Tower The Northwest Tower , later popularly known as
12-605: The Coyote Building , and Robey Hotel since 2017, is a 12-story Art Deco building at the corner of North Avenue and Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago . It was designed by Perkins, Chatten & Hammond and built between 1928 and 1929. The Northwest Tower is one of the first skyscrapers in Chicago to have been constructed outside the downtown area. The tower was built on the site of the Noel State Bank, near
18-576: The Damen stop on the Chicago "L" , at the intersection of Damen, North and Milwaukee Avenues. Milwaukee Avenue runs northwest through Chicago’s grid of streets, creating intersections that often have a “flatiron” or wedge-shaped building on one corner, like this building. It was originally marketed to attorneys, doctors, and other professionals. In the 1980s, it became home to the Tower Coyote Gallery, reportedly named because artists thought
24-468: The Robey Hotel, with its address at 2018 W. North Avenue and its neighborhood now called Wicker Park. Robey Street was an early name for Damen Avenue . The Grupo Habita did the design of the renovation and operates the hotel. The building received praise for its use of “layering” interior designs of rooms and restaurants from all the decades of the building’s history. The warehouse on the adjacent lot
30-482: The building resembled a howling coyote . Over the next two decades, the surrounding neighborhood held an annual arts festival called Around the Coyote. In 2008, the Chicago Zoning Board approved plans to convert the building into a hotel, but financial difficulties prevented the building's owner from moving ahead with the project. Renovation as a hotel began in 2015 and ended in 2017 when it opened as
36-592: Was renovated to include a swimming pool and gym. In 2012, the property was purchased by a venture backed by Don Wilson and AJ Capita with the intent to renovate the property into a boutique hotel. Hotel Robey , named after the prior street name for Damen Avenue, offers 69 rooms and Cafe Robey serving French-American cuisine. The hotel is operated by Grupo Habita , a Mexico-based hotel group with 14 hotels in Mexico and one in New York. From 2015 to 2017, Northwest Tower
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