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Sheridan Plaza Hotel

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Built
  
1920–21

Area
  
2,800 m²

Architect
  
Walter W. Ahlschlager

NRHP Reference #
  
80001350

Added to NRHP
  
21 November 1980

Sheridan Plaza Hotel

Location
  
4601–4613 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, Illinois

Similar
  
Edgewater Beach Apartments, Uptown Theatre, Wrigley Field, Marshall Field and Company, Café Brauer

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The Sheridan Plaza Hotel is a historic hotel located at the corner of Wilson Avenue and Sheridan Road in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

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Overview

Construction on the hotel began in 1920, and the hotel opened in 1921. The hotel was designed by co-owner Walter Ahlschlager; the brick building features extensive terra cotta ornamentation, including terra cotta gargoyles on some of the top corners. The hotel was the first high-rise building in Uptown. The Chicago Cubs and visiting teams that played the Cubs stayed in the hotel; the building was also a popular site for weddings and dances. After the hotel closed, the building sat vacant and deteriorated significantly, and some of the terra cotta decorations fell off the side of the building. In 2009, a realty group renovated the property, which is now an apartment building.

Recognition

The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1980.

References

Sheridan Plaza Hotel Wikipedia