Edgewater Beach Hotel

Edgewater Beach Hotel
Postcard of Edgewater Beach Hotel showing the 1916 (at right) and 1924 buildings with connecting concourse. This part of the resort was demolished by 1971.
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General information
Architectural styleSpanish Colonial Revival[1]
Location5301-5355 N Sheridan Road
Chicago, Illinois
CountryUnited States
Coordinates41°59′1″N 87°39′17″W / 41.98361°N 87.65472°W / 41.98361; -87.65472
Construction started1915
Completed1924
OpenedJune 3, 1916
Demolished1971
CostUS $9 million[2]
ClientJohn Tobin Connery and James Patrick Connery
Design and construction
Architect(s)Marshall and Fox[1]
Edgewater Beach Apartments
The Edgewater Beach Apartments, built in 1927, sole portion of complex now standing
Edgewater Beach Hotel is located in Chicago metropolitan area
Edgewater Beach Hotel
Edgewater Beach Hotel is located in Illinois
Edgewater Beach Hotel
Edgewater Beach Hotel is located in the United States
Edgewater Beach Hotel
Location5555 North Sheridan Road
Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates41°59′1″N 87°39′17″W / 41.98361°N 87.65472°W / 41.98361; -87.65472
Built1928 (co-op apartments)
ArchitectMarshall and Fox
Architectural styleBeaux-arts / Historism[4]
MPSBryn Mawr Avenue Historic District
NRHP reference No.94000979[3]
Added to NRHPAugust 16, 1994

The Edgewater Beach Hotel was a resort hotel complex on Lake Michigan in the far-north neighborhood community of Edgewater in Chicago, Illinois, designed by Benjamin H. Marshall[5] and Charles E. Fox. The first multi-story building was built in 1916, for its owners John Tobin Connery and James Patrick Connery, located between Sheridan Road and Lake Michigan at Berwyn Avenue in a Spanish Revival style. An adjacent south tower building was added in 1924, with a low connecting passageway-building to serve as reception and additional public rooms.[6] The resort, which included beaches, pools, clubs, and gardens hosted famous movie and sports stars, and later Martin Luther King Jr.[7] The hotel was also the setting for the celebrity stalking case and shooting that inspired the novel and movie The Natural. The hotel buildings closed in 1967, and were soon after demolished.

The Edgewater Beach Apartments to the north were completed as part of the hotel resort complex in 1928. The "sunset pink" apartments complemented the "sunrise yellow" hotel buildings in a similar architectural style.[8] The apartments remain and have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference EmporisHotel was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Fuller, Ernest (September 1, 1955). "Ownership of Edgewater Hotel Shifted". Chicago Tribune, Finance. p. 7.
  3. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
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  5. ^ "About Benjamin Marshall". The Benjamin Marshall Society. 2009. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  6. ^ Enright, Laura (2005). "Architecture". Chicago's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Murderous Mobsters, Midway Monsters, and Windy City Oddities. Dulles, VA: Brassey's. p. 31. ISBN 1-57488-785-8.
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