Edgewater Beach Hotel
The Edgewater Beach Hotel was a resort hotel complex on Lake Michigan in the far-north neighborhood community of Edgewater in Chicago, Illinois, designed by Benjamin H. Marshall and Charles E. Fox. The first multi-story building was built in 1916, for its owners John Tobin Connery and James Patrick Connery, located between Sheridan Road and Lake Michigan at Berwyn Avenue in a Spanish Revival style. An adjacent south tower building was added in 1924, with a low connecting passageway-building to serve as reception and additional public rooms. The resort, which included beaches, pools, clubs, and gardens hosted famous movie and sports stars, and later Martin Luther King Jr. The hotel was also the setting for the celebrity stalking case and shooting that inspired the novel and movie The Natural. The hotel buildings closed in 1967, and were soon after demolished.
| Edgewater Beach Hotel | |
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Postcard of Edgewater Beach Hotel showing the 1916 (at right) and 1924 buildings with connecting concourse. This part of the resort was demolished by 1971. | |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Spanish Colonial Revival |
| Location | 5301-5355 N Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 41°59′1″N 87°39′17″W |
| Construction started | 1915 |
| Completed | 1924 |
| Opened | June 3, 1916 |
| Demolished | 1971 |
| Cost | US $9 million |
| Client | John Tobin Connery and James Patrick Connery |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Marshall and Fox |
Edgewater Beach Apartments | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
The Edgewater Beach Apartments, built in 1927, sole portion of complex now standing | |
| Location | 5555 North Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois |
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| Coordinates | 41°59′1″N 87°39′17″W |
| Built | 1928 (co-op apartments) |
| Architect | Marshall and Fox |
| Architectural style | Beaux-arts / Historism |
| MPS | Bryn Mawr Avenue Historic District |
| NRHP reference No. | 94000979 |
| Added to NRHP | August 16, 1994 |
The Edgewater Beach Apartments to the north were completed as part of the hotel resort complex in 1928. The "sunset pink" apartments complemented the "sunrise yellow" hotel buildings in a similar architectural style. The apartments remain and have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.