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Hotel St Benedict Flats
Posted by: querencia (---.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net)
Date: January 27, 2010 09:51PM

Notice on the north side of Chicago Avenue around Rush there is a long red brick 1880's-looking building, now housing sandwich shops and the thrift shop of Northwestern Memorial Hospital. I read the other day that this was the Hotel St Benedict's Flats, 40-52 East Chicago, built 1882-3, luxury flats made to look like a row of four townhouses when people still associated apartments with tenements. It was so named because it stood on the site of St Benedict's Church, of the Order of St Benedict, that burned in the 1871 fire. Architect was James Egan.

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Re: Hotel St Benedict Flats
Posted by: davey7 (---.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net)
Date: February 02, 2010 09:26PM

Yes, the plans are in the Chicago Apartments book - Lakefront Luxury Living (can't remember title). I hadn't realized that either.

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