Promontory Apartments

5530--5532 South Shore Dr., Chicago, Illinois. County/parish: Cook.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 21, 1996. NRIS 96001281.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Promontory Apartments

The Promontory Apartments is a 22-story skyscraper in Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It was the first skyscraper Mies designed and was the first of his buildings to feature concepts such as an exposed skeleton. The cooperative building overlooking Burnham Park has 122 units.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892008

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