Mayfair Apartments
The Mayfair Apartments are a historic apartment hotel at 1650–1666 E. 56th Street in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Built in 1926, the building was part of a wave of residential department in Hyde Park, and it was one of several apartment hotels constructed there in the late 1910s and 1920s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Apartment building
- Description: historic apartment hotel at 1650–1666 E. 56th Street in Chicago, Illinois
- Address: 5496 South Hyde Park Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60615
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Museum of Science and Industry Chicago and Pioneer Zephyr.
Museum of Science and Industry Chicago
Museum
The Museum of Science and Industry is a private, non-profit science museum located in Jackson Park, the Hyde Park neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois. It is adjacent to Lake Michigan and the University of Chicago campus. Museum of Science and Industry Chicago is situated 1,700 feet south of Mayfair Apartments.
Pioneer Zephyr
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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 1,400 feet south of Mayfair Apartments.
55th–56th–57th Street station
Railway station
55th–56th–57th Street is a commuter rail station in Hyde Park, Chicago that serves the Metra Electric Line north to Millennium Station and south to University Park, Blue Island, and South Chicago; and the South Shore Line to Gary and South Bend, Indiana. 55th–56th–57th Street station is situated 1,300 feet southwest of Mayfair 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
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 Lines to the west.
Kenwood
Suburb
Photo: Monika Bonckute, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kenwood, one of Chicago's 77 community areas, 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.
Mayfair Apartments
- Categories: building and residential building
- Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.79542° or 41° 47′ 44″ northLongitude
-87.58441° or 87° 35′ 4″ westLevels
12Open location code
86HJQCW8+56OpenStreetMap ID
way 211225595OpenStreetMap feature
building=apartmentsWikidata ID
Q85784474
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