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The Lightner Museum, originally the Alcazar Hotel, with a statue of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés on the ground. The Lightner Museum is a museum of antiques, mostly American Gilded Age pieces, housed within the historic Hotel Alcazar building in downtown St. Augustine. This 1887 Spanish Renaissance Revival style building is listed on the National ...
There are 105 sites on the National Register of Historic Placeslistings in South Side Chicago— of more than 350 total listings within the City of Chicago, in Cook County, Illinois. The South Side district is defined for this article as the area west of Lake Michigan, and south of 26th Street and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, to the ...
Chicago, New York City. Man's Country was a chain of bathhouses and private clubs for gay men in Chicago and New York City. Man's Country/Chicago opened at 5015–5017 North Clark Street in Chicago on September 19, 1973, and held the title of Chicago's longest-running gay bathhouse when it closed in 2017. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Less is known about Man ...
The Congress Plaza Hotel is a hotel on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, across from Grant Park. Opened by R.H. Southgate just before the 1893 World’s Fair, [1] the hotel has hosted numerous US Presidents and a wide range of political and cultural events. The hotel is frequently claimed to be one of the most haunted buildings in Chicago. [2] [3] [4]
[a] [6] In February 2013, Vaughn offered the penthouse for sale as a pocket listing for $24.9 million. [ b ] However, after multiple price cuts he chose in May 2016 to divide the unit in two, offering one for $8.5 million, [ c ] and the other smaller unit for $4.2 million.
Purdy & Henderson. The La Salle Hotel was a historic hotel located on the northwest corner of La Salle Street and Madison Street in the Chicago Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was designed by Holabird & Roche and opened in 1909. [1] After a major fire in 1946, the hotel was refurbished and reopened in 1947.
Architect (s) Walter W. Ahlschlager. InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile is a hotel in Chicago, United States. The hotel currently occupies two multi-story buildings. The historic tower, or "South Tower," is a 471-foot (144 m), 42-story building which was completed in 1929 originally as the home of the Medinah Athletic Club. [1] The new ...
The Drake, a Hilton Hotel, 140 East Walton Place, [ 2 ] Chicago, Illinois, is a luxury, full-service hotel, located downtown on the lake side of Michigan Avenue two blocks north of the John Hancock Center and a block south of Oak Street Beach at the top of the Magnificent Mile. Overlooking Lake Michigan, it was founded in 1920, and soon became ...