Eastwood by the Lake explained

Eastwood By The Lake, formerly known as Eastwood Beach Apartment Hotel,^{[1] [2]} is a condominium and apartment building in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is the oldest known residential hotel built in Chicago during the twentieth century.^[3] It was designed in 1912 by architect John Augustus Nyden as a unique hotel with 25 balconies, lounging room, and a rooftop ballroom next to "the beach".^{[4] [5] [6]}

Design

Eastwood By The Lake was designed in 1912 by architect John Augustus Nyden. The original fireproof construction consisted of eighty apartments and boasted the proximity to Clarendon Avenue Beach.^[7] One unique feature was that it featured specially designed kitchenettes.^{[8] [9]}

It was renovated in the 2000s, and is located across the street from the Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Evanston Preservation Commission. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190212033125/https://www.cityofevanston.org/home/showdocument?id=11916 . 2019-02-12 .
2. Book: Cash, Robert Carroll. Modern type of apartment hotels thruout United States; exhibiting photographic reproductions of exteriors and typical floor plans, together with a description of the essential advantages and the rental schedule, showing the possibilities of this class of building from the tenant's and investor's standpoint... 1917. Chicago: R. C. Cash. Prelinger Library.
3. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210506231252/https://www2.illinois.gov/dnrhistoric/Preserve/SiteAssets/Pages/illinois-historic-sites-advisory-council/Residential%20Hotels%20in%20Chicago%201880-1930%20MPD.pdf . 2021-05-06 .
4. Web site: City of Evanston Preservation Commission . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190212033125/https://www.cityofevanston.org/home/showdocument?id=11916 . 2019-02-12.
5. February 20, 1920 . Cave Dwelling De Luxe . Architecture: an Australasian Review of Architecture and the Allied Arts and Sciences . 7 . 2 . 59.
6. Web site: Clarendon Beach, a boy flying in midair above a crowd of people who are holding a large blanket, standing on the sand at Clarendon Beach in Chicago, 1929 [Library of Congress]]. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20060617205006/http://memory.loc.gov:80/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/n0883/n088399.jpg . 2006-06-17 .
7. Web site: Clarendon Avenue Beach, 1916. 2021-05-21. www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org.
8. Book: Hotel Monthly. 1919. J. Willy.. en.
9. Web site: Chicago's Apartment Hotels of the Roaring Twenties. 2021-05-21. Julia Bachrach Consulting. en-US.