{"nrhp_refnum":"86001199","name":"Poinsetta Apartments","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5528 S. Hyde Park Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.79406663300006,"lon":-87.58425824199998,"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 apartment hotel at 5528 South Hyde Park Boulevard in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, built in 1929 and designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. It sits next to the Broadview Hotel.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is an outstanding example of Spanish Colonial Revival apartment-hotel design and the only one in the Hyde Park Apartment Hotels group in that style. It is praised for its masterful use of Chicago-made terra cotta, including roped trim, medallions and rare green faux marble panels. The reviewer also noted its role in providing housing and services for Chicago's middle class.","narrative":"Rising twelve stories on the west side of South Hyde Park Boulevard in Chicago, this 1929 apartment hotel is clad in buff brick with terra cotta trim. It has a 50-foot frontage, five applied pilasters that project above the cornice, and 76 apartments, making it the smallest of the Hyde Park apartment hotels in its group. Spanish Colonial Revival details include green tile coping, wrought iron grillwork at the third-level windows, and wood casement windows set above terra cotta medallions. Two-story terra cotta frames surround the grouped casement windows on the lower levels, with rococo headings and green faux marble panels. It was listed for its outstanding terra cotta ornamentation, a showcase for the Chicago-based terra cotta industry, and as the only Spanish Colonial Revival design among the Hyde Park apartment hotels. Reviewers also valued its place in the story of apartment hotels that housed Chicago's middle class.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Spanish Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.851571-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/54/8909/28890954/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/86001199.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001199/22d5d04530-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001199/22d5d04530-1600.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_Poinsettia_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_Poinsettia_Apartments.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890954","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poinsettia_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85793793"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/poinsetta-apartments-86001199/"}