{"nrhp_refnum":"86001193","name":"Chicago Beach Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5100--5110 S. Cornell Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.80233913600006,"lon":-87.58698186599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-05-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A twelve-story Art Deco apartment hotel at 5100-5110 South Cornell Avenue, at the southwest corner of East Hyde Park Boulevard, in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. It was built in 1929 to designs by architect Warnes M. Pearson for the Beachview Building Corp.","why_significant":"It is the only Art Deco building among the Hyde Park apartment hotels in its thematic group. It is also one of the last apartment hotels built in Hyde Park before the Depression halted major construction. Its entry and lobby preserve largely unchanged Art Deco ornamentation, including bas reliefs, fluted pilasters and decorative ceilings.","narrative":"Rising twelve stories at the corner of East Hyde Park Boulevard and South Cornell Avenue in Chicago, this 1929 apartment hotel was designed by architect Warnes M. Pearson for the Beachview Building Corp. The rectangular building, measuring 46 by 116 feet, has buff brick walls above a black glazed tile base, with terra cotta trim including a belt course, fluted spandrels and rosettes at the cornice. Shops with fan-shaped terra cotta trim occupy the lower level. Inside, a vaulted entry with marble wainscoting leads to a wood-paneled lobby with a fireplace, waffle-pattern plaster ceiling, fluted pilasters and bas reliefs. The building holds 95 apartments, mostly studios and single guest rooms. It is notable as the only Art Deco example among the Hyde Park apartment hotels in its group and one of the last built there before the Depression halted major construction. Its largely intact lobby conveys a late 1920s character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Warnes M. Pearson, Architect; Beachview Building Corp., Developers","architectural_style":"Art Deco","criteria":[],"status_note":"Contains 95 apartments, mostly studio and individual guest rooms, plus five two-bedroom units. The lobby ornamentation appears little changed since installation.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.117948-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/8909/28890942/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/86001193.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001193/c0da622f21-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001193/c0da622f21-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Mx. Granger","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scholars_Corner_Apartments_2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mx. Granger</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scholars_Corner_Apartments_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890942","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Beach_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16890267"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/chicago-beach-hotel-86001193/"}