Edgewater Beach Hotel

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The Edgewater Beach Apartments, built in 1927

Site of the Edgewater Beach Hotel viewed from the southeast in 2006

The Edgewater Beach Hotel 1916 was the 1st building built in a hotel complex outside of the current Chicago, Illinois city limits. The hotel was located between Sheridan Road and the lake at Berwyn Avenue. The complex had its own private beach and offered a seaplane service to downtown Chicago known as The Loop. In its lifetime the hotel played host to many famous guests including Marilyn Monroe and U.S. Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The hotel was famous for hosting big bands such as the bands of Tommy Dorsey, Xavier Cugat, and Wayne King, which were also broadcast on the hotel's own radio station. The 1951–54 extension of Lake Shore Drive from Foster Avenue to Bryn Mawr Avenue cut the hotel off from the beach leading to a drop-off in business. The hotel closed in 1967 and buildings were demolished shortly after. The Edgewater Beach Co-op or Apartments built in 1927 is the only part of the hotel complex to survive and is a Chicago Landmark and part of the Bryn Mawr Historic District where many Art Deco buildings can be found. It is the only pink high rise building in Chicago.

The developers also built a sister hotel the Edgewater Gulf Hotel in Biloxi, Mississippi. Both projects were designed by the Chicago architectural firm of Marshall and Fox.

Then: the Edgewater Beach Hotel viewed from the north in 1923

Now: photograph from a similar position in 2006

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