Flamingo-on-the-Lake Apartments

{{Short description|Apartment building in Chicago, Illinois}}

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Flamingo-on-the-Lake Apartments

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| image = Flamingo-on-the-Lake Apartments (7373080024).jpg

| caption = The front of the apartments

| location = 5500-5520 S. Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois

| coordinates = {{coord|41|47|41|N|87|34|51|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Chicago#Illinois#USA

| area = Hyde Park, Chicago

| built = 1927

| architect = William C. Reichert

| architecture = Beaux Arts, Classical Revival

| added = May 14, 1986

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| refnum=86001194 {{NRISref|2006a}}

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The Flamingo-on-the-Lake Apartments, also known as the Flamingo Apartment Hotel, is a building designed by architect William C. Reichert and located at 5500-5520 S. Shore Drive along Lake Michigan in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The 16-story apartment building was built with 144 apartments and 16 hotel rooms in 1927; it also featured an outdoor pool and bathhouse. It was designed in the Classical Revival style; its exterior is red brick with terra cotta ornamentation and a dentillated cornice.{{cite web|title=Flamingo-on-the-Lake Apartments (Formerly Flamingo Apt. Hotel)|url=http://gis.hpa.state.il.us/pdfs/201451.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422124638/http://gis.hpa.state.il.us/pdfs/201451.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 22, 2016|publisher=Illinois Historic Preservation Agency|access-date=April 10, 2016}} It and the adjacent building, The Promontory Apartments, a co-op building designed by Mies van der Rohe, are the furthest east buildings in Hyde Park.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1986.