Indian Village, Chicago

For other uses, see Indian Village.

Approximate boundaries of Indian Village

Indian Village is the small southeast corner of Kenwood, a community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is bounded by Lake Shore Drive to the east, Burnham Park to the north, 51st Street (signed locally as East Hyde Park Boulevard) to the south, Harold Washington Park to the southeast, and the Illinois Central Railroad tracks used by the South Shore and Metra Electric Lines to the west. Many of the buildings in the neighborhood are named after American Indian tribes including the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-designated Narragansett; the Powhatan Apartments, a Chicago Landmark; the Chippewa; and the Algonquin Apartment buildings.

Details

Indian Village high rises, including Regents Park and Powhatan Apartments, from Promontory Point

The NRHP site of the former Chicago Beach Hotel that now hosts the Regents Park is also in the neighborhood.^[1] The new location of the Hyde Park Art Center at 5020 S. Cornell Avenue is in this neighborhood.^[2] Carol Moseley Braun, former United States Senator and former 2004 Democratic Party Presidential Candidate, once lived in the 5000 East End Building, which was the tallest building on the South Side of Chicago until 1965.^[3] The neighborhood hosts the Powhatan Apartments, the only 24-hour elevator operator building in Chicago.^[4] Regents Park's South Tower is the tallest building in the Kenwood community area.^[5] Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the Algonquin Apartments, which are a set of six identical 14-story towers in the neighborhood, and the nearby Chippewa Cooperative Apartments.^[6][7][8] When the developer altered these projects' glass-enclosed lobby design, Mies asked that his name be dissociated from both.^[9] In 1951, they were completed along with the adjacent The Twin Towers Apartments, which originally housed U.S. Army personnel at the Fifth Army Headquarters.^[10]

Notes

1. "Indian Village, Chicago". Emporis. Archived from the original on May 12, 2004. Retrieved July 18, 2008.
2. "Hyde Park Art Center". Hyde Park Art Center. 2006. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
3. "5000 East End Building". Emporis.com. Emporis Corporation. Archived from the original on September 5, 2012.
4. "The Powhatan". Emporis. 2008. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
5. "Regents Park South". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on February 16, 2007. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
6. Chase, Al (January 7, 1950). "2 Apartment Projects to Be Started Soon". Chicago Daily Tribune.
7. "Algonquin Apartments". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on September 21, 2004. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
8. Chase, Al (October 28, 1950). "Twin Tower Units to House 5th Army Aids". Chicago Daily Tribune.
9. Davis, Susan (2013). Chicago's Historic Hyde Park. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 316.
10. "Twin Towers Apartments". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on August 24, 2004. Retrieved July 20, 2008.

External links

• Official City of Chicago Kenwood Community Map

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