{"nrhp_refnum":"86001194","name":"Flamingo-On-The-Lake Apartments","other_names":["Flamingo Apartment Hotel"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5500--5520 S. Shore Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.794624758000054,"lon":-87.58077284999996,"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 sixteen-story red brick and terra cotta apartment hotel at 5500-5520 South Shore Drive in the Hyde Park area of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, built in 1927. It is one of the buildings in a thematic group of Hyde Park apartment hotels.","why_significant":"It is the tallest of the apartment hotels in the thematic group. Its neoclassical two-story base gives it the look of a London townhouse and reduces the impression of height at pedestrian scale. The design contrasts a restrained base with enriched second and third levels, and it shows fine examples of the local terra cotta industry.","narrative":"Sixteen stories of red brick and terra cotta rise on the west side of South Shore Drive in Chicago's Hyde Park area. Built in 1927 as an apartment hotel, the building has a narrow 50-foot front and 150-foot side elevations. Its two-story neoclassical base has arched openings and a dentiled cornice, while the second and third levels carry rococo window moldings and corner trim. Terra cotta quoins outline twin bays that rise to a terra cotta cornice and arcaded parapet, and the small mechanical penthouse repeats the quoins and ornamental parapet. Originally 144 studio units and 16 guest rooms, it now holds 96 apartments, and a parklike area with a free-form swimming pool and bathhouse lies on its north side. It was listed as the tallest of a group of Hyde Park apartment hotels. Its townhouse-like lower facade brings the height down to a pedestrian scale, and its terra cotta work reflects the local industry of the day.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Neoclassical base with rococo window moldings and corner trim","criteria":[],"status_note":"Now a 96-unit apartment building; it originally held 144 studio units and 16 single guest rooms. A small penthouse houses mechanical equipment.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:34.513602-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/8909/28890948/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/86001194.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001194/85570726ef-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001194/85570726ef-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20080910_Flamingo-on-the-Lake_Apartments.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20080910_Flamingo-on-the-Lake_Apartments.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100001970","name":"Promontory Point","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/promontory-point-100001970/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890948","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo-on-the-Lake_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5457264"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/flamingo-on-the-lake-apartments-86001194/"}