Poinsettia Apartments

The Poinsettia Apartments are an apartment hotel at 5528 S. Hyde Park Boulevard in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1929, the building was the last of several apartment hotels built in Hyde Park during a period of residential development in the late 1910s and 1920s.

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Type: Apartment building
Description: apartment building in Chicago, United States of America
Address: 5528 South Hyde Park Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60637

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include 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 south of Poinsettia 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 south of Poinsettia Apartments.

Catholic Theological Union

University

Catholic Theological Union is a private Catholic graduate school of theology in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was formed in Hyde Park as a union of schools from three Catholic religious institutes and has since been sponsored by 24 institutes and Catholic faith communities. Catholic Theological Union is situated 1,300 feet north of Poinsettia Apartments.

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

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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.

Poinsettia 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

41.79434° or 41° 47′ 40″ north

Longitude

-87.58439° or 87° 35′ 4″ west

Inception

1929

Levels

Open location code

86HJQCV8+P6

OpenStreetMap ID

way 144479772

OpenStreetMap feature

building=apartments

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=heritage

Wikidata ID

Q85793793

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