Chicago, ILLINOIS - SS Edgewater Beach Yacht Club Cocktail Room

Description: Chicago, ILLINOIS - SS Edgewater Beach Yacht Club Cocktail Room - Hotel: The Edgewater Beach Hotel was a hotel in the far-north neighborhood community of Edgewater in Chicago, Illinois. Designed by Benjamin H. Marshall and built in 1916 for its owners John Tobin Connery and James Patrick Connery, it was located between Sheridan Road and Lake Michigan at Berwyn Avenue. An adjacent tower building was added in 1924. The hotel closed in 1967, and was soon after demolished. The Edgewater Beach Apartments were completed as part of the hotel resort complex in 1928. The "sunset pink" apartments, complimented the "sunrise yellow" hotel in a similar architectural style. The apartments remain standing and have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The complex was composed of several buildings. The first building, which was built in the shape of a Maltese cross had 400 rooms. It opened in June 1916. It quickly became a success and eight years later, in 1924, a second and taller 19 story, 600-room tower was built to the south of the original. The newer, larger tower was initially called the Annex and, a passageway which became to be called the passaggio connected the two buildings. It was designed by Chicago-based architects Marshall and Fox. It had a 1,200-foot private beach and offered seaplane service to downtown Chicago. A black and white photo of the completed hotel complex tops the article for Channel 11 Chicago Stories, showing the extended Lake Shore Drive; below is a labelled photo showing the complex along its own beach. When both hotel buildings were initially built, there was not much sandy beach adjacent to the hotel buildings, as shown in an aerial photo from the south; extension of Lake Shore Drive north to Foster Avenue in 1933 resulted in sandier beach at the site, which is north of Foster along the Lake Michigan shore. During its lifetime, the hotel served many famous guests including Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Charlie Chaplin, Bette Davis, Lena Horne, Tallulah Bankhead, and Nat King Cole, and U.S. Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The hotel was known for hosting big bands such as those of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Xavier Cugat, and Wayne King, which were also broadcast on the hotel's own radio station, a precursor to WGN with the call letters WEBH. This White Border Era (1915-30) postcard is in good condition but shows some edge wear. Republic Printing Company. Chicago, Illinois.

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Location: Brooklyn, New York

End Time: 2025-01-22T23:07:36.000Z

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