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This roadway was built on landfill in the area that had been the private beach for the hotel. While new public beaches serving the Edgewater neighborhood were eventually created, they did not replace the hotel's own beach. After the hotel was cut off from the lake by the new drive, a swimming pool was added in 1953. In 1960, in order to compete ...
This structure, dating to 1928, is the extension wing of a lavish hotel complex, the Edgewater Beach Hotel. Although once popular with celebrities and the elite, the extension of the Lake Shore Drive cut the hotel from the beach and led to its demolition. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
East Ravenswood Historic District: September 3, 1991 : Roughly bounded by W. Lawrence Avenue, N. Clark Street, W. Irving Park Road and N. Ravenswood Avenue: Lake View and Uptown: 31: Edgewater Beach Apartments
A prominent symbol of Edgewater's affluence and desirable location on the lake was the Edgewater Beach Hotel, which opened in 1916 at 5349 N. Sheridan. The famed "sunrise" yellow hotel was razed in 1970, though the remaining "sunset" pink Edgewater Beach Apartments building is still a landmark at the north tip of Lake Shore Drive. The Edgewater ...
English: 399, Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago. Date: circa 1914 ... File history. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. Date/Time Thumbnail
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The Historic Edgewater Beach Apartments mark the northern end of the Drive. Lake Shore Drive was extended from Belmont Avenue (3200n) north to Foster Avenue (5200n) in 1933, where it terminated until the 1950s when it was extended — first briefly to Bryn Mawr (5600n) and then in 1957 to its present terminus at Hollywood Avenue (5700n).