Chicago Beach Hotel

Chicago Beach Hotel- Postmarked 1910 (above) and 1911 (below)

Chicago Beach Hotel

Located at Hyde Park Boulevard and Cornell Avenue, this  guest and residential hotel was built in 1890 and then rebuilt and enlarged in 1911.  It so resembles the Hyde Park Hotel that it probably was built by the same builders, Starrett and Fuller. Source- The Chicago School of Architecture.

Many speculative hotels were built to accommodate the anticipated crowds for the Columbian Exposition of 1893, and were converted to luxury hotel/apartments following the Fair.  Numerious examples of these buildings existed around the Hyde Park neighborhood, and most were later demolished and replaced with luxury apartment buildings.



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