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Union Park Hotel
built 1930 and with current city data crediting Benjamin Albert Comm, Designated as a Chicago landmark on June 9, 2010. the public record begins with concrete facts and can move outward into public landscape design and shared civic space.
Union Park Hotel
1519 West Warren Blvd, Chicago, Illinois
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- Official status: Chicago individual landmark.
- Address: 1519 West Warren Blvd.
- Built: 1930.
- Architect: Benjamin Albert Comm.
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Why It Matters
Union Park Hotel prevents public landscape design, shared civic space, and neighborhood identity from floating free of the site itself.
Once that baseline is in place, the site can support deeper work on stewardship, alteration, public memory, and the larger corridor or block around it.
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Research Narrative
Landmark Context
Union Park Hotel enters Chicago's public landmark record at 1519 West Warren Blvd. The current city data lists it as dating to a construction date of 1930 and credits Benjamin Albert Comm. It was designated on June 9, 2010. Union Park Hotel can be read through public landscape design, shared civic space, and neighborhood identity without losing sight of the actual site.
Union Park Hotel reveals more once fieldwork compares pathways, edges, and planting structure, relationships between open space and surrounding buildings, and later redesign or maintenance shifts. The point is not just to admire the building but to understand how open space holds public memory even as planting, paving, or surrounding uses change.
Research Starting Points
Union Park Hotel can be carried further through park or planning reports, historic photographs and atlases, and newspaper coverage and community records. Those materials are where architecture, use, and later stewardship begin to line up against each other.
Union Park Hotel still needs deeper source work, but the landmark record already keeps that work tied to one place.
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1930
Development
Construction period recorded in city landmark data
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Chicago's public landmark data records Union Park Hotel as built in 1930.
June 9, 2010
Designation
Chicago individual landmark designation
by Public record Previous
City of Chicago designated Union Park Hotel as an individual landmark on June 9, 2010.
February 2026
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City landmark address list and data portal record
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Union Park Hotel remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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City of Chicago Open Data: Individual Landmarks
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Chicago Landmark Address List February 2026
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Place Snapshot
- Place
- Union Park Hotel
- Location
- 1519 West Warren Blvd, Chicago, Illinois
- Coverage
- Exact
Key Facts
- Region
- Chicago, Illinois / Midwest
- Place type
- Landscape / Public Space
- Current status
- Preserved
- Address
- 1519 West Warren Blvd
- Built
- 1930
- Architect
- Benjamin Albert Comm
- Designated
- June 9, 2010
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Benjamin Albert Comm
1930
Milestone
Design architect or firm credited in current city landmark data
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