East Park Towers

The East Park Towers are a historic apartment building at 5236-5252 S. Hyde Park Boulevard in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The building was constructed in 1922-23 during a period of residential growth in Hyde Park. While it had no guest rooms, the apartments offered similar amenities to an apartment hotel, such as housekeeping service. Apartment hotels were popular as part-time housing for wealthy workers, as they combined the amenities of in-home service with the affordability of apartments, and the East Park Towers were one of several such apartments built in Hyde Park at the time.[2] Architect William P. Doerr designed the building in the Georgian Revival style; his design included terra cotta belt courses and quoins and Palladian windows on the first floor.[3]

East Park Towers
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	5236--5252 S. Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates	41°47′59″N 87°35′04″W
Area	0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Built	1922-23
Built by	Shelbourne Hotel Corp.
Architect	Doerr, William P.
Architectural style	Georgian Revival
MPS	Hyde Park Apartment Hotels TR
NRHP reference No.	86001197[1]
Added to NRHP	May 14, 1986

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1986.[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. Rathbun, Peter; Kirchner, Charles (November 27, 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Hyde Park Apartment Hotels TR, Chicago, Illinois". National Park Service. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
3. "Inventory Form: East Park Towers (formerly East End Park Apartments)" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Retrieved October 9, 2019.