Sutherland Hotel
- Architect
- Henry L. Newhouse
- Year
- 1919
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Chicago, IL
The Sutherland Hotel at 47th Street and Drexel Boulevard in Kenwood began as developer Sherman T. Cooper's bid for a high-class hotel, designed by architect Henry L. Newhouse. Construction started in late 1917, but once the United States entered World War I, the partly finished building was commandeered by the government as a military hospital before it ever opened as a hotel.
the building
An interrupted opening. Newhouse's original plan called for six stories and 236 bedrooms. By the time the government took over the site in 1918, the exterior was complete but the interior had no finished floors, heat, or fixtures. The building did not finally open as the Sutherland Hotel until 1925.
The Sutherland Lounge. Once open, the hotel's Sutherland Lounge became a well-known stop on Chicago's jazz circuit, giving the building a second identity as a music venue on top of its original use as a hotel.
the style
Newhouse designed the Sutherland in a Neoclassical style, the formal, symmetrical vocabulary favored for ambitious hotels courting Kenwood's upper-class clientele in the 1910s.
More on Neoclassicalthe architect
Henry L. Newhouse specialized in commercial buildings and was commissioned directly by developer Sherman T. Cooper to design the hotel.
significance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
nearby
- Kenwood United Church of Christ
- McGill House
- Muddy Waters House
- K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Temple
- Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church Building
- Isidore H. Heller House