The East Park Towers are a historic apartment building at 5236-5252 S. Hyde Park Boulevard in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The building was constructed in 1922-23 during a period of residential growth in Hyde Park. While it had no guest rooms, the apartments offered similar amenities to an apartment hotel, such as housekeeping service. Apartment hotels were popular as part-time housing for wealthy workers, as they combined the amenities of in-home service with the affordability of apartments, and the East Park Towers were one of several such apartments built in Hyde Park at the time.[2] Architect William P. Doerr designed the building in the Georgian Revival style; his design included terra cotta belt courses and quoins and Palladian windows on the first floor.[3]
East Park Towers | |
| Location | 5236--5252 S. Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago, Illinois |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 41°47′59″N 87°35′04″W / 41.79972°N 87.58444°W |
| Area | 0.4 acres (0.16 ha) |
| Built | 1922-23 |
| Built by | Shelbourne Hotel Corp. |
| Architect | Doerr, William P. |
| Architectural style | Georgian Revival |
| MPS | Hyde Park Apartment Hotels TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 86001197[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 14, 1986 |
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1986.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ Rathbun, Peter; Kirchner, Charles (November 27, 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Hyde Park Apartment Hotels TR, Chicago, Illinois". National Park Service. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
- ^ "Inventory Form: East Park Towers (formerly East End Park Apartments)" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Retrieved October 9, 2019.[dead link]