{"nrhp_refnum":"92000485","name":"Belden Stratford Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2300 N. Lincoln Park West","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.92402690500006,"lon":-87.63670254699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A fifteen-story apartment hotel at 2300 North Lincoln Park West in Chicago, facing Lincoln Park and Lake Michigan. It was built in 1922-23 and designed and built by Meyer Fridstein.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a locally significant, distinguished example of the apartment hotel, a building type that combined home-like privacy with hotel services. Its design blends Beaux Arts classical pictorialism with Second Empire influences, most visibly in a bold convex Mansard roof of purple terra cotta. It also used the latest terra cotta developments and reflects the 1920s northward lakefront development of Chicago.","narrative":"Rising fifteen stories across from Lincoln Park and Lake Michigan, this apartment hotel at 2300 North Lincoln Park West was built in 1922-23. Meyer Fridstein served as designer and builder. The steel frame and reinforced concrete structure is clad in terra cotta on the lower floors and cream glazed brick above, and it is crowned by a two-story convex Mansard roof covered in purple terra cotta made to resemble slate. The design mixes Beaux Arts classicism with Second Empire details, and a curved entry with a female-bust keystone marks the center of the facade. The building matters as a distinguished local example of the apartment hotel, a type that offered private apartments with kitchenettes alongside hotel services such as maid service and a central dining room. It went up during the 1920s building boom along Chicago's northern lakefront. The exterior and the three-story travertine lobby remain largely intact, and the building still serves as apartments.","period_of_significance":"1923","architect_builder":"Fridstein, Meyer","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Beaux Arts","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as apartments; the form describes a recent rehabilitation, 303 units, and a restaurant and retail services on the lower level.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.814861-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/44/8919/28891944/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/92000485.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000485/a77df8ad8c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000485/a77df8ad8c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"flickr user RichieC","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belden_Stratford_Hotel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">flickr user RichieC</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belden_Stratford_Hotel.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891944","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belden_Stratford","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4882122"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/belden-stratford-hotel-92000485/"}