National Register of Historic Places

Edgewater Beach Apartments

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Listed
August 15, 1994
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
94000979

About this property

The Edgewater Beach Hotel was a resort hotel complex on Lake Michigan in the far-north neighborhood community of Edgewater in Chicago, Illinois, designed by Benjamin H. Marshall and Charles E. Fox. The first multi-story hotel building was built in 1916, for its owners John Tobin Connery and James Patrick Connery, located between Sheridan Road and Lake Michigan at Berwyn Avenue in a Spanish Revival style. An adjacent south tower building was added in 1924, with a low connecting passageway-building to serve as reception and additional public rooms. The resort, which included beaches, pools, clubs, and gardens hosted famous movie and sports stars, and later Martin Luther King Jr. The hotel was also the setting for the celebrity stalking case and shooting that inspired the novel and movie The Natural. The hotel buildings closed in 1967, and were soon after demolished. The Edgewater Beach Apartments to the north were completed as part of the hotel resort complex in 1928. The "sunset pink" apartments complemented the "sunrise yellow" hotel buildings in a similar architectural style. The apartments remain and have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Location

5555 N. Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
41.98364, -87.65468

Categories

ARCHITECTURE
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Sources

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When was Edgewater Beach Apartments listed on the National Register?

Edgewater Beach Apartments was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 15, 1994.

What type of historic resource is Edgewater Beach Apartments?

Edgewater Beach Apartments is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Edgewater Beach Apartments is recorded as the industrial era.

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