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Flamingo on the Lake Apartments

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Built
  
1927

Opened
  
1927

Phone
  
+1 773-752-3800

Added to NRHP
  
14 May 1986

NRHP Reference #
  
86001194

Area
  
809.4 m²

Architectural style
  
Neoclassical architecture

Flamingo-on-the-Lake Apartments

Location
  
5500-5520 S. Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois

Address
  
5500 S Shore Dr # 101, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Similar
  
South Shore Cultural, Bessemer Park, Midway Plaisance, Shoreland Hotel, Jackson Park

Flamingo on the lake apartments top 5 facts


The Flamingo-on-the-Lake Apartments, also known as the Flamingo Apartment Hotel, is a building located at 5500-5520 S. Shore Drive along Lake Michigan in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The 16-story apartment building was built with 144 apartments and 16 hotel rooms in 1927; it also featured an outdoor pool and bathhouse. It was designed in the Classical Revival style; its exterior is red brick with terra cotta ornamentation and a dentillated cornice. It and the adjacent building, The Promontory Apartments, a co-op building designed by Mies van der Rohe, are the furthest east buildings in Hyde Park.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1986.

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