Building at 2440 N. Lakeview Avenue
- Year
- 1927
- Style
- Tudor Revival
- City
- Chicago, IL
Completed in 1926–27 as an eighteen-story luxury apartment building along Lake Michigan in Lincoln Park, this Tudor Revival tower used a semi-cooperative ownership model: residents of the largest apartments held an ownership stake in the building, while smaller units were simply rented. The arrangement, popular with Chicago's luxury apartments of the era, gave owner-residents control over how the building was run and who could move in.
the building
Terra cotta ornament. Rissman & Hirschfeld dressed the building in terra cotta: arches frame the entrances, and ornamental panels run between the windows of the upper and lower floors, all in a Tudor Revival style that was uncommon among Chicago's luxury apartment towers.
Penthouse and balustrade. A balustrade caps the sixteenth floor, above which sits a two-story penthouse crowned with a broken parapet — the building's crown, set apart from the plainer shaft below.
the style
Tudor Revival was one of many historical revival styles fashionable in early twentieth-century America, but it was a relatively unusual choice among Chicago's lakefront luxury apartments, which more often reached for Renaissance or Gothic vocabularies.
More on Tudor Revivalsignificance
Added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 2011.
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