Belle Shore Apartment Hotel

Landmark Context

Belle Shore Apartment Hotel is tied to 1062 W Bryn Mawr Av in the city's landmark file. The designation record holds onto a construction date of 1928-29 and credits Nathaniel Koenigsberg & Leon Weisfeld. It was designated on November 6, 2002. Belle Shore Apartment Hotel already ties domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change to one real building before archival digging begins.

Belle Shore Apartment Hotel reveals more once fieldwork compares lot width, setbacks, porches, bays, and rooflines, the rhythm between neighboring houses, and alterations that show changing domestic use. Together, those clues make it easier to understand how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.

Research Starting Points

Belle Shore Apartment Hotel can be carried further through real-estate atlases and fire insurance maps, permit files and census or directory material, and historic photographs and neighborhood histories. Those records help separate what the landmark file says from what the longer building history actually shows.

Belle Shore Apartment Hotel is already usable now without pretending the historical work is finished.