Building at 399 West Fullerton Parkway
- Year
- 1926
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Chicago, IL
Built in 1926 as a seventeen-story cooperative apartment tower in Lincoln Park, 399 West Fullerton Parkway was marketed to Chicago's affluent as a lakeside address with modern conveniences, including parking and chauffeur service for residents' increasingly common automobiles. Cooperative ownership, which let residents control the building's management and screen future buyers, had become a fashionable model among the city's upper class in the 1920s.
the building
French Renaissance dressing. Architects McNally and Quinn wrapped the tower in brick with classically ornamented stone across the first three stories, then added decorative balustrades and window surrounds on the floors above.
Twin hip roofs. Two small, steep hip roofs cap the projected sections of the facade, breaking up the building's profile against the skyline.
the style
The building follows the French Renaissance Revival, one of the historicist styles Chicago developers favored for lakefront cooperatives aimed at reassuring wealthy buyers with old-world refinement.
More on Renaissance Revivalsignificance
Added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 2007.
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