Cairo Supper Club Building
- Architect
- Paul Gerhardt, Sr.
- Year
- 1920
- Style
- Egyptian Revival
- City
- Chicago, IL
The Cairo Supper Club Building is a one-story, terra-cotta-clad structure at 4015-4017 N. Sheridan Road, designed in 1920 by architect Paul Gerhardt Sr. as the Winston Building. It stands today in the Buena Park Historic District as one of Chicago's rare examples of Egyptian Revival architecture.
the building
Terra-cotta skin. The building is clad entirely in terra cotta, a material that could be cast into the exotic ornament its Egyptian Revival design called for.
the style
Egyptian Revival architecture is scarce in Chicago, and this building — originally called the Winston Building before it became the Cairo Supper Club — is a notable surviving instance of it.
More on Egyptian Revivalsignificance
As the Cairo Supper Club, the building was hit by a drive-by firebombing in May 1964, when a man in a white Cadillac threw an incendiary device through a window. It was designated a Chicago Landmark in 2014.
nearby
- Immaculata High School
- Wrigley Field
- 42nd Presinct / Town Hall Police Station
- Getty Tomb
- Lake View Presbyterian Church
- Graeme Stewart Public School Building