Poinsettia Apartments

The Poinsettia Apartments (also spelled the Poinsetta Apartments) are an apartment hotel at 5528 S. Hyde Park Boulevard in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1929, the building was the last of several apartment hotels built in Hyde Park during a period of residential development in the late 1910s and 1920s. Apartment hotels were popular among wealthier workers in the city at the time, as they combined the amenities and prestige of hotels with the affordability of apartments.[2] The Poinsettia Apartments were both the smallest of the Hyde Park apartment hotels and the only building designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. Its design features pilasters spanning the height of the building, terra cotta ornamentation, and decorative window surrounds on the first two floors.[3]

Poinsettia Apartments
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	5528 S. Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates	41°47′39″N 87°35′03″W
Area	0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built	1929 (1929)
Architectural style	Spanish Colonial Revival
MPS	Hyde Park Apartment Hotels TR
NRHP reference No.	86001199[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: Poinsetta Apartments" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Retrieved October 9, 2019.