Hotel Windermere (Chicago)

Hotel Windermere was a hotel in Hyde Park, Chicago, United States, located at 56th Street and Cornell Avenue. It was built in 1892 for the Columbian Exposition. In 1924 it was rebuilt with a West and East hotel under Rapp & Rapp, who also built the Chicago Theatre and the Tivoli Theatre. The 12-story hotel had 482 guest rooms and 200 apartments and had a tunnel connecting the two hotels. Over the years Windermere East attracted guests such as John Rockefeller, Philip Roth, George Burns and Gracie Allen,^[1] and American football teams. Windermere West was demolished in 1959 to make way for a parking lot, and in 1981 Windermere East was converted into apartments and placed on the National Register of Historic Places a year later under the title Hotel Windermere East.^[2]

Hotel Windermere
Hotel Windermere East
General information
Location	Hyde Park, Chicago
Opening	1892
Closed	1959 (Wimdermere West); 1981 (Windermere East)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Rapp & Rapp
Other information
Number of rooms	482

1926 Army Cadets football team staying at the hotel ahead of the 1926 Army–Navy Game at Soldier Field

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in South Side Chicago