Mayfair Apartments

Chicago, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The Mayfair Apartments, located at 1650–1666 E. 56th Street in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, is a historic apartment hotel built in 1926. Designed by the architecture firm Lowenberg & Lowenberg in the Georgian Revival style, the building exemplifies the wave of residential development that transformed Hyde Park in the late 1910s and 1920s. Apartment hotels such as this one catered to wealthy workers seeking temporary city accommodations, combining hotel amenities and prestige with apartment pricing and location. The building's design reflects its dual character: its first three stories are clad in limestone and ornamented with flat Corinthian columns and balustrades on the second-story windows, while the upper floors are brick with dentillated cornices at the roof and above the eleventh story. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1986.