Hotel Del Prado

The Hotel Del Prado is a historic apartment hotel at 5307 S. Hyde Park Boulevard in the Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1918, it is the oldest of the several apartment hotels built in Hyde Park in the late 1910s and 1920s.

Hotel Del Prado
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	5307 S. Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates	41°47′58″N 87°35′02″W
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	1918 (1918)
Built by	Cooper, Sherman T.
Architectural style	Neoclassical
MPS	Hyde Park Apartment Hotels TR
NRHP reference No.	86001195[1]
Added to NRHP	May 14, 1986

Hyde Park was growing in both population and prestige at the time, creating a need for additional housing. Apartment hotels were a fashionable choice, as they combined the amenities and prestige of hotels with the affordability of apartments.^[2] The Hotel Del Prado had 198 apartments and included commercial space on its first and second floors. Its Neoclassical design includes Palladian windows on its lower floors, terra cotta trim throughout its exterior, and carved American Indian heads atop terra cotta columns.^[3]

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 7, 2019.
3. "Inventory Form: Hotel Del Prado (Formerly Cooper-Carlton Hotel)" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Retrieved October 7, 2019.^{[dead link‍]}