Flamingo-On-The-Lake Apartments

5500--5520 S. Shore Dr., Chicago, Illinois. County/parish: Cook.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 14, 1986. NRIS 86001194.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Flamingo Apartment Hotel

From Wikipedia:

Flamingo-on-the-Lake Apartments

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.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890948

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