YMCA Hotel (Chicago, Illinois) explained

YMCA Hotel
Coordinates:41.8714°N -87.6261°W
Architect:Robert Berlin, James G. Rogers
Architecture:Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Italian Renaissance
Added:August 30, 1989
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:89001202

The YMCA Hotel is a historic former hotel located in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The hotel, which was designed by Robert C. Berlin and James Gamble Rogers, opened in 1916. Originally marketed by YMCA as a cheap residence for young, single men, the hotel began marketing to a wider clientele when the Great Depression created a demand for inexpensive lodging. The hotel's status and customers declined with the surrounding neighborhood, and it closed in 1979; it reopened as an apartment building in 1985.[1] The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 1989.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: YMCA Hotel, 826 S. Wabash Ave.. The South Loop Historical Society at East-West University. January 27, 2013.