Drake Hotel, Michigan Avenue, Streeterville, Chicago, IL : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Drake Hotel, Michigan Avenue, Streeterville, Chicago, IL / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1920, this Italian Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Benjamin Marshall and Charles Eli Fox to serve as the Drake Hotel, and was built for hotel magnates Tracy Drake and John Drake, Jr. to serve as a hotel adjacent to the fashionable residential area in the Gold Coast to the north and along the developing commercial corridor of the Magnificent Mile along Michigan Avenue to the south. The building notably housed the original broadcast studio of WGN in 1924, as well as being the home of William Drake, and his wife, Elizabeth Drake, from the hotel’s opening until they lost the building due to the Great Depression. In the 1930s and 1940s, part of the hotel was an office for Frank “The Enforcer” Nitti, head of the Chicago Outfit, an organized crime syndicate. The hotel became home to the private Club International in the 1940s, which remains operational within the building. Many notable celebrities, political figures, and aristocrats have stayed at the hotel during its long history. The building is clad in stone with storefront openings at the base, a main entrance off of Walton Place on the south side of the building, featuring an ornate glass and metal canopy, and windows with decorative metal grilles on the north facade of the building, with arched double-height windows with decorative keystones, festoons, and balconies with iron railings above on the second floor except at a colonnade with larger window openings on the north side of the building, and decorative sconces at the corners of the building. Above the second floor, the building becomes H-shaped with light wells to the north and south, with simple trimmed windows up to the twelfth floor, where the trim becomes more ornate and features pediments, and the thirteenth floor, which features decorative reliefs between windows, with a cornice featuring modillions wrapping the top of the building’s parapet, which encloses a low-slope roof. A fourteenth floor penthouse in the middle of the building features oxeye openings and decorative carved reliefs styled after Italian Renaissance buildings. Inside, the building features intact historic common spaces with decorative wood paneling, wooden ceilings with beams and coffers, plaster and stone trim panels and reliefs, and decorative columns, with the most notable spaces being the lobby, Gold Coast Ballroom, and Palm Court. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 1996, the hotel was purchased by Hilton International, a hotel chain, and was renovated between 1998 and 2003, with additional work to add a fitness center and conference center being carried out between 2005 and 2006. Hilton International was acquired by Hilton Hotels Corporation in 2005, leading to the hotel becoming part of the Hilton Hotels chain. The building today remains one of Chicago’s premiere hotels, and maintains its historic character, while being full of modern amenities. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-11-07 11:58:41 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Chicago, Illinois, United States 地図 |