{"nrhp_refnum":"86001201","name":"Shoreland Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5450--5484 S. Shore Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.79579317200006,"lon":-87.58126488299996,"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":"An eleven-story, U-shaped apartment hotel at 5450-5484 South Shore Drive in Chicago's Hyde Park area, built in 1925-1926 by the Jackson Hotel Company with Friedstein & Co. as architects.","why_significant":"It is one of the largest of the Hyde Park Apartment Hotels and is noted for the high quality of its overall design. Its circular drive with a cast iron porte cochere and its baroque terra cotta ornamentation scale down a monumental two-story base. The massing and upper-level ornament make it stand out when viewed along South Shore Drive.","narrative":"Rising eleven stories along South Shore Drive, this U-shaped hotel in Chicago's Hyde Park area was built in 1925-1926 by the Jackson Hotel Company to designs by Friedstein & Co. Buff brick over a terra cotta base forms a facade 300 feet wide and 200 feet deep, facing the lake. The design is neoclassical, with an arcaded base, a classical cornice and a balustrade, while the terra cotta work adds heraldic shields, eagles and keystones carved with satyr heads. Visitors enter by a brick-paved circular drive beneath a cast iron porte cochere into a two-story columned lobby with marble floor and wainscoting. With 313 apartments, it is among the largest of the Hyde Park apartment hotels. Its listing rests on the quality of its design, especially the way ornament softens the monumental first levels and suggests a grand country manor, while its massing and upper decoration make it a landmark along the drive. It is now used as a university dormitory.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Friedstein & Co., Architects; Jackson Hotel Company, Developers","architectural_style":"Neoclassical design with medieval and baroque terra cotta detailing","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used by the University of Chicago as a dormitory at the time of the nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.767502-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/52/8909/28890952/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/86001201.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001201/08c968163d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001201/08c968163d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Paul R. Burley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shoreland_Hotel_Chicago_2021-3165.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul R. Burley</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:Shoreland_Hotel_Chicago_2021-3165.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890952","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreland_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7501429"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/shoreland-hotel-86001201/"}