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Flamingo-on-the-Lake Apartments

Flamingo-on-the-Lake Apartments

United States historic place

The Flamingo-on-the-Lake Apartments, also known as the Flamingo Apartment Hotel, is a building designed by architect William C. Reichert and 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.[2] 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.

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The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1986.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 15, 2006.
  2. [2]
    "Flamingo-on-the-Lake Apartments (Formerly Flamingo Apt. Hotel)" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 22, 2016. Retrieved April 10, 2016.

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