{"nrhp_refnum":"00000153","name":"Somerset Hotel","other_names":["Hotel Mayer","Hotel Roosevelt"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1152-1154 S. Wabash Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.86770235400007,"lon":-87.62614052899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-03-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-story Romanesque Revival hotel at 1152-1154 South Wabash Avenue, at the corner of Roosevelt Road, about half a mile south of the Chicago Loop. It was built in 1892-1893 and designed by architect Jules De Horvath.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant under Criterion C for architecture. It reflects design elements Chicago architects developed for high-rise hotels and apartment buildings in the late 1880s and 1890s. Its brickwork, swelling bays and round-arched top-story windows give it local prominence, and the upper floors keep their original design integrity despite a 1947 remodeling of the base.","narrative":"Rising eight stories at the corner of South Wabash Avenue and Roosevelt Road, this hotel was built in 1892-1893 to designs by Chicago architect Jules De Horvath. Its dark red pressed brick walls, curved window bays, stone stringcourses and round-arched top-floor windows reflect the Romanesque Revival style and ideas then being developed for Chicago high-rise hotels. The building was intended for people of modest means, with 18 single rooms per floor, simple interiors and a ground-floor lobby with retail shops. Census records show residents were mostly young, single clerks and other workers. It later operated as Hotel Mayer and Hotel Roosevelt. A 1947 remodeling covered the first two floors in white enameled metal panels, but the upper six floors keep their original character. The building is now largely vacant. It was listed for its architectural qualities as a well-preserved late nineteenth-century Chicago hotel.","period_of_significance":"1892-1893","architect_builder":"De Horvath, Jules, architect","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Romanesque Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently vacant except for a single storefront; the ground floor was remodeled in 1947 with white enameled metal panels.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.100895-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/12/8921/28892112/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/00000153.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000153/4dd1e67fc2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000153/4dd1e67fc2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Somerset_1152-1154_South_Wabash_Avenue_Roosevelt_Road_facade.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Somerset_1152-1154_South_Wabash_Avenue_Roosevelt_Road_facade.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892112","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14688092"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/somerset-hotel-00000153/"}