Promontory Apartments

The Promontory Apartments is a 22-story skyscraper in Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States. The first skyscraper designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, it was also the first of his buildings to feature concepts such as an exposed skeleton.

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Type: Apartment building
Description: historic building in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Address: 5530 South Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60637

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Museum of Science and Industry Chicago and Pioneer Zephyr.

Museum of Science and Industry Chicago

Museum

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The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry is a private, non-profit science museum located in Jackson Park, the Hyde Park neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois. Museum of Science and Industry Chicago is situated 1,400 feet southwest of Promontory Apartments.

Pioneer Zephyr

Locomotive

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The Pioneer Zephyr is a diesel-powered trainset built by the Budd Company in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, commonly known as the Burlington Route. Pioneer Zephyr is situated 1,100 feet southwest of Promontory Apartments.

Flamingo-on-the-Lake Apartments

Apartment building

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The Flamingo-on-the-Lake Apartments, also known as the Flamingo Apartment Hotel, is a building designed by architect William C. Reichert and located at 5500-5520 S.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hyde Park and Indian Village.

Hyde Park

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Hyde Park is one of Chicago's most famous neighborhoods, most certainly so on the South Side, located along the south lakefront. Having played host to the White City, the University of Chicago, President Obama, the setting for Richard Wright's Native Son, and…

Indian Village

Neighborhood

Photo: Monika Bonckute, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Indian Village is the small southeast corner of Kenwood, a community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is bounded by Lake Shore Drive to the east, Burnham Park to the north, 51st Street to the south, Harold Washington Park to the southeast, and the Illinois Central Railroad tracks used by the South Shore and Metra Electric District lines to the west.

Kenwood

Suburb

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Kenwood is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. It is on the shore of Lake Michigan on the South Side of the city. Its boundaries are 43rd Street, 51st Street, Cottage Grove Avenue, and the lake.

Promontory Apartments

Categories: heritage site, building, historic site, and residential building
Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.79433° or 41° 47′ 40″ north

Longitude

-87.58082° or 87° 34′ 51″ west

Established

1949

Levels

Open location code

86HJQCV9+PM

OpenStreetMap ID

way 125512562

OpenStreetMap feature

building=apartments

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=heritage

Wikidata ID

Q16898814

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