Belmonte Flats

The Belmonte Flats are two connected apartment buildings at the intersection of 43rd Street and King Drive in the Grand Boulevard community area of Chicago, Illinois. The older and taller of the two buildings was built in 1893, while the other building opened in 1896. The Grand Boulevard area was popular with affluent Chicagoans at the time, and apartments like the Belmonte Flats served as luxury apartment housing for these residents. Chicago architecture firm Patton & Fisher designed the apartments; both buildings have matching Chicago school designs with Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque elements. The buildings both feature brick exteriors with limestone bases and terra cotta cornices, and the taller building has a turret at its corner. The interior features extensive detailing typical of luxury housing, including ornamental moldings and brackets and a mosaic tile floor in the lobby.[2]

Belmonte Flats
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	4257-4259 S. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., and 400-412 E. 43rd St., Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates	41°49′01″N 87°36′59″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1893
Architect	Patton and Fisher
Architectural style	Chicago School, Queen Anne, Richardsonian Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	98000063[1]
Added to NRHP	February 5, 1998

The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 5, 1998.[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. Benjamin, Susan; Granacki, Victoria (August 26, 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Belmonte Flats" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Retrieved October 13, 2019.