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Eastwood By The Lake, formerly known as Eastwood Beach Apartment Hotel, [1] [2] is a condominium and apartment building in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is the oldest known residential hotel built in Chicago during the twentieth century. [ 3 ]
Developed between 1891 and 1929, the district is a collection of single-family homes, small apartment buildings, and a handful of larger apartment hotels. The homes were built early in the district's development, with nearly all of them completed by 1910; at the time, the district was planned as a spacious suburb and categorized with North ...
The Chicago Beach Apartments, built in 1929, are located at 5100 South Cornell Avenue in Chicago, USA. [2] Landfilling and other reconfiguration of the lakefront means that the building is not as close to a beach as it once was.
Originally constructed as 5415 EdgewaterBeach, on the former site of the Edgewater Beach Hotel, it was renamed Park Tower and Mall in 1979 when it was converted from apartments to condominiums by Robert Sheridan & Partners. Eight of the original 728 apartments have been legally merged into four units, leaving a total of 724 condos.
Rainbow Park Beach Chicago. Rainbow Beach is officially located at 3111 E. 77th St., [29] is a beach in the Chicago Park District's Rainbow Beach & Park that stretches from 75th Street to 78th Street on the Lake Michigan shoreline. [30] Rainbow Beach was named such in 1918.
Drake Hotel (lower right) and the East Lake Shore Drive District from Oak Street Beach. According to local legend, John Drake (1826–1895) (the father of this hotel's founders) was standing with a hotel owner watching the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The owner, seeing his hotel threatened by the flames, offered to sell it for any price.
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The hotel was built in 1892 [1] by Warren Leland [2] and was one of many speculative hotels built to accommodate the hordes of tourists drawn by the upcoming Columbian Exposition of 1893. [1] It contained 450 rooms, with 175 bathrooms. [3] The property extended to Lake Michigan. [4] The building resembled the Hyde Park Hotel and probably shared ...