Union Park Hotel
- Architect
- Benjamin Albert Comm
- Year
- 1930
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Chicago, IL
- Collection
- chicago deco
Originally the Viceroy Hotel, the Union Park Hotel at 1519-1521 W. Warren Boulevard was built in 1929-30 by architect Benjamin Albert Comm as an apartment hotel, a common housing type for Chicago laborers in the 1920s. Its Art Deco design was designated a Chicago Landmark in 2010.
the building
Vertical piers. The building's piers give it the vertical emphasis typical of Art Deco work, paired with geometric decorative elements.
Color on the facade. Its brick and terra cotta facade uses color extensively, a trait unusual among Chicago's other Art Deco buildings.
the style
The design reflects the national popularity of Art Deco in the late 1920s, expressed here through vertical piers, geometric ornament, and an unusually colorful brick and terra cotta facade.
More on Art Decosignificance
Designated Chicago Landmark L-289 on June 9, 2010, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 7, 2010.
nearby
- Union Park Congregational Church and Carpenter Chapel
- Church of the Epiphany
- Abraham Groesbeck House
- Greater Union Baptist Church
- Cook County Hospital Administration Building
- Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church