The Belle Shore Apartment Hotel is a building of the Bryn Mawr Historic District in far-north neighborhood community of Edgewater in Chicago, Illinois. It was declared a historic Chicago Landmark by the Chicago City Council. Edgewater is a north Chicago, Illinois, community bordering the neighborhoods of Rogers Park and Uptown. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... State nickname: Land of Lincoln, The Prairie State Other U.S. States Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Governor Rod Blagojevich Official languages English Area 149,998 km² (25th) - Land 143,968 km² - Water 6,030 km² (4. ... Chicago City Hall, adjacent to the Richard J. Daley Center, houses the chambers of the Chicago City Council. ...
The BelleShore, built from 1928 to 1929 in an Art Deco style using rich green and cream terra cotta and brick, was designed by the firm of Koenigsberg and Weisfeld.
The Bryn Mawr ApartmentHotel is on land that is part of this original subdivision; the BelleShoreApartmentHotel is on land that Cochran added to his subdivision in 1887.
The first and second floors of the south and west elevations of the BelleShore are faced entirely with the distinctive green glazed terra cotta tiles that vary in the shade of green due to weathering or replacement in the past.
The BelleShoreApartmentHotel is a building of the Bryn Mawr Historic District in far-north neighborhood community of Edgewater in Chicago, Illinois.
It is located along the shores of Lake Michigan and runs approximately from Diversey Parkway on the south to Irving Park Road on the north and from Lake Michigan on the east...
South Shore is a predominately African-American neighborhood on the south side of Chicago.