National Register of Historic Places

Mayfair Apartments

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Listed
May 13, 1986
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
86001198

About this property

The Mayfair Apartments are a historic apartment hotel at 1650–1666 E. 56th Street in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Built in 1926, the building was part of a wave of residential department in Hyde Park, and it was one of several apartment hotels constructed there in the late 1910s and 1920s. Apartment hotels were popular among wealthy workers looking for part-time city housing, as they combined the amenities and prestige of a hotel with the price and location of apartments. The architecture firm Lowenberg & Lowenberg designed the building in the Georgian Revival style. The building's first three stories are clad with limestone and decorated with flat Corinthian columns and balustrades on the second-story windows. The remainder of the building is brick and includes a dentillated cornice at its roof and a second cornice above its eleventh story. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1986.

Location

1650--1666 E. Fifty-sixth St.
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
41.79533, -87.58427

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When was Mayfair Apartments listed on the National Register?

Mayfair Apartments was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 13, 1986.

What type of historic resource is Mayfair Apartments?

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

What is the period of significance for Mayfair Apartments?

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

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