{"nrhp_refnum":"78001131","name":"South Shore Beach Apartments","other_names":["Seventy Three Twenty One South Shore Drive Co-op"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7321 S. Shore Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.763926886000036,"lon":-87.55944196299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-06-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 13-story cooperative apartment building at 7321 South Shore Drive in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, designed in 1926 and built 1927-1928 by architect Robert S. De Golyer.","why_significant":"The building represents a type of lakefront apartment building that peaked in Chicago and New York just before the 1929 depression, and it was one of the last of its kind built in Chicago. It survives essentially intact, inside and out. It is also a work of Robert S. De Golyer, a nationally recognized designer of apartment, hotel and housing projects.","narrative":"South Shore Beach Apartments is a 13-story cooperative apartment building at 7321 South Shore Drive in Chicago. Designed in 1926 and finished early in 1928, it has an L-shaped plan with two half-octagonal bays on the west facade, textured tapestry brick walls, and a lobby with original slate floors and stenciled beamed ceilings. It holds 64 apartments plus engineer's quarters, served by two passenger elevators that limit each floor to no more than four units. Its style recalls Spanish or Moorish influences but relates more closely to the Art Deco or Moderne work of the late 1920s. Architect Robert S. De Golyer, who opened his Illinois practice in 1898, was known for apartment, hotel and housing designs, including the Ambassador East Hotel. The building was listed because it exemplifies a lakefront apartment type that peaked just before 1929, was among the last built in Chicago, and has survived with its exterior and shared spaces unaltered.","period_of_significance":"1926-28","architect_builder":"Robert S. De Golyer, FAIA","architectural_style":"Reminiscent of Spanish or Moorish influences, more correctly related to Art Deco or Moderne architecture of the late 1920s","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; converted to a cooperative in 1950 and described as superbly maintained and virtually intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.232682-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/8921/28892174/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/78001131.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001131/2b043fd250-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001131/2b043fd250-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jim Roberts","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Shore_Beach_Apartments_(Chicago,_IL).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Roberts</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:South_Shore_Beach_Apartments_(Chicago,_IL).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892174","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_Beach_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85815874"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/south-shore-beach-apartments-78001131/"}