Belmonte Flats
- Architect
- Patton & Fisher
- Year
- 1893
- Style
- Richardsonian Romanesque
- City
- Chicago, IL
The Belmonte Flats are two connected apartment buildings at 43rd Street and King Drive, designed by Patton & Fisher for the Grand Boulevard neighborhood, then popular with affluent Chicagoans. The taller building opened in 1893 and its twin in 1896, both built as luxury apartment housing blending Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque design.
the building
Two matching buildings. Both structures share matching Chicago School designs with brick exteriors, limestone bases, and terra cotta cornices; the taller, older building carries a turret at its corner.
The lobby. Inside, the flats featured luxury detailing for their affluent tenants, including ornamental moldings and brackets and a mosaic tile floor in the lobby.
the style
The buildings mix Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque elements, a combination Patton & Fisher used to signal high-end housing in the Chicago School idiom.
More on Richardsonian Romanesquesignificance
Added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 5, 1998.
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