Carling Hotel

Year: 1927
Style: Neoclassical
City: Chicago, IL

The Carling Hotel went up in 1927 at 1512 N. LaSalle Street to house the wave of laborers arriving in Chicago in the early twentieth century. Though it offered both short stays and permanent rooms, census records show most of its tenants settled in for the long term. Architect Edmund J. Meles designed the brick building in a blend of Classical Revival and Renaissance Revival styles.

the building

Terra cotta dressing. The brick facade carries extensive terra cotta ornament, including molded surrounds at the entrance and windows, pilasters running up the front, and a molded cornice marking off the first floor from the residential stories above.

the style

Meles blended Classical Revival and Renaissance Revival vocabulary, a combination common among Chicago's residential hotels of the era, where terra cotta ornament let a modest brick building read as substantial and respectable from the street.

the architect

Edmund J. Meles designed several of Chicago's large hotels and apartment buildings in the early twentieth century, working in the historicist styles favored for the city's residential-hotel boom.

significance

The Carling Hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 24, 2017.

nearby

Albert F. Madlener House 0.2 mi · Prairie School · 1902
Eugenie Lane Apartments 0.2 mi · Mid-Century Modern · 1962
Henry Gerber House 0.3 mi · Queen Anne · 1885
Marshall Field Garden Apartments 0.3 mi
Three Arts Club 0.3 mi · 1914
James Charnley House 0.3 mi · 1891

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