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Promontory Apartments

The Promontory Apartments is a 22-story skyscraper in , , United States designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It was the first skyscraper Mies designed and was 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 include Museum of Science and Industry Chicago and Pioneer Zephyr.

Museum
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The Museum of Science and Industry is a private, non-profit science museum located in , the neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois. It is adjacent to and the University of Chicago campus. is situated 1,400 feet southwest of Promontory Apartments.

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

Apartment building
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The , 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.

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is one of '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…

Neighborhood
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is the small southeast corner of , a community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is bounded by Lake Shore Drive to the east, to the north, 51st Street to the south, to the southeast, and the Illinois Central Railroad tracks used by the South Shore and Metra Electric Lines to the west.

Suburb
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, one of 's 77 community areas, is on the shore of on the of the city. Its boundaries are 43rd Street, 51st Street, Cottage Grove Avenue, and the lake.

Promontory Apartments

Latitude
41.79433° or 41° 47′ 40″ north
Longitude
-87.58082° or 87° 34′ 51″ west
Levels
21
Open location code
86HJQCV9+PM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 125512562
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­apartments
Wiki­data ID
Q16898814
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Promontory Apartments”. Photo: Teemu008, CC BY-SA 2.0.