Hotel Windermere (Chicago)
Hotel Windermere was a hotel in Hyde Park, Chicago, United States, located at 56th Street and . It was built in 1892 for the Columbian Exposition. In 1924 it was rebuilt with a West and East hotel under Rapp & Rapp, who also built the Chicago Theatre and the Tivoli Theatre. The 12-story hotel had 482 guest rooms and 200 apartments and had a tunnel connecting the two hotels. Over the years Windermere East attracted guests such as John Rockefeller, Philip Roth, George Burns and Gracie Allen,[1] and American football teams. Windermere West was demolished in 1959 to make way for a parking lot, and in 1981 Windermere East was converted into apartments and placed on the National Register of Historic Places a year later under the title Hotel Windermere East.[2]
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- ^ Mannion, Annemarie. "TOUCH OF HISTORY". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
- ^ Hudson, Leslie (2003). Hyde Park. Arcadia Publishing. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-7385-3198-4.
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Coordinates: 41°47′37″N 87°35′5″W / 41.79361°N 87.58472°W
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