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The Edgewater Beach Hotel was a hotel resort complex in the far-north neighborhood community of Edgewater in Chicago, Illinois. Designed by Benjamin H. Marshall〔The Benjamin Marshall Society ( "About Benjamin Marshall" )〕 the first section was built in 1916 for its owners John Tobin Connery and James Patrick Connery, it was located between Sheridan Road and Lake Michigan at Berwyn Avenue. An adjacent tower building was added in 1924. The hotel closed in 1967, and was soon after demolished. The Edgewater Beach Apartments were completed as part of the hotel resort complex in 1928. The "sunset pink" apartments complemented the "sunrise yellow" hotel in a similar architectural style.〔 The apartments remain standing and have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ==History== Designed by Chicago-based architects Marshall and Fox, the complex was composed of several buildings and recreation grounds. The Main Building, designed in the shape of a cross fourchée, had 400 rooms and opened on June 3, 1916. It quickly became a success and eight years later, in 1924, a second and taller 19 story, 600-room tower was built to the south of the original. The Tower Building had a stepped design, tallest at its center, with lower sections to the east and west of the center. The newer, larger Tower Building, initially called the Annex, was connected to the Main Building by a large hall known as the Passaggio.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Edgewater Beach Hotel )〕 It had a 1,200-foot private beach and offered seaplane service to downtown Chicago.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Edgewater Beach Hotel )〕 When both hotel buildings were initially constructed, there was not much sandy beach adjacent to the hotel buildings. The 1933 extension of Lake Shore Drive north to Foster Avenue resulted in the creation of a private bathing beach east of the hotel and north of Foster along the Lake Michigan shore.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Edgewater Beach Hotel )〕 During its lifetime, the hotel served many famous guests including Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Charlie Chaplin, Bette Davis, Lena Horne, Tallulah Bankhead, and Nat King Cole, and U.S. Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The hotel was known for hosting big bands such as those of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Xavier Cugat, and Wayne King, which were also broadcast on the hotel's own radio station, a precursor to WGN with the call letters WEBH. In the winter months the bands played in the Marine Dining Room and, in the summer months, outdoors on the Beach Walk. On the first floor of the hotel, guests walked on a wooden gangway into the Yacht Club for cocktails. In the early days women were not permitted to sit at the bar. On June 14, 1949, Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Eddie Waitkus was shot and nearly killed by an obsessive fan at the hotel, 19-year-old Ruth Steinhagen; this later would be a large part of the inspiration behind Bernard Malamud's novel ''The Natural''. The 1951–54 extension of Lake Shore Drive from Foster Avenue to Hollywood Avenue cut the hotel off from direct access to Lake Michigan, leading to a reduction in business. This roadway was built on landfill in the area that had been the beach for the hotel. After the hotel was cut off from the lake by the new drive, a swimming pool was added in 1953. However, this failed to help maintain its attraction as a resort. Newer hotels included air conditioning. The hotel closed in 1967 and the main buildings were demolished shortly after.〔 Loyola University used the buildings as student housing briefly; the buildings were demolished in 1970. The developers also built a sister hotel, the Edgewater Gulf Hotel, in Biloxi, Mississippi, which closed in 1970. Both projects were designed by the Chicago architectural firm of Marshall and Fox. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edgewater Beach Hotel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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