5500--5520 S. Shore Dr., Chicago, Illinois. County/parish: Cook.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 14, 1986. NRIS 86001194.
Part of Hyde Park Apartment Hotels TR (NRIS 64000176).
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Flamingo-on-the-Lake Apartments, also known as the Flamingo Apartment Hotel, is a building designed by architect William C. Reichert and located at 5500-5520 S. Shore Drive along Lake Michigan in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The 16-story apartment building was built with 144 apartments and 16 hotel rooms in 1927; it also featured an outdoor pool and bathhouse. It was designed in the Classical Revival style; its exterior is red brick with terra cotta ornamentation and a dentillated cornice. It and the adjacent building, The Promontory Apartments, a co-op building designed by Mies van der Rohe, are the furthest east buildings in Hyde Park.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1986.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890948