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Hotel Lincoln, JdV by Hyatt
Chicago, Illinois, United States · JdV by Hyatt · Accessible Luxury
Hotel Lincoln looks across 1816 North Clark at the park, in the 1928 building Loewenberg & Loewenberg designed, and the name on the door is the original one. The last version was a Days Inn. The building then sat closed for about six years after a prior investor's Ponzi case, until AJ Capital and Centrum reopened it on March 8, 2012, as Joie de Vivre's first hotel east of the Mississippi. The 184 rooms went back into the old layouts. J. Parker, up a new elevator, still watches Lincoln Park and the lake.
- 184 rooms
- Opened 2012
- Neighborhood: Lincoln Park
- Architect: Loewenberg & Loewenberg
About Hotel Lincoln, JdV by Hyatt
- AJ Capital and Centrum paid $11.4 million for the closed hotel in late 2010. Joie de Vivre belonged to Hyatt heir John Pritzker, which is how the house later landed in JdV by Hyatt.
- Hirsch MPG kept the original room layouts, cut a new elevator to the roof for J. Parker, and took a 2014 gold award from the Association of Licensed Architects for the work.
History
Loewenberg & Loewenberg's hotel at 1816 North Clark opened in the late 1920s under the name Hotel Lincoln. It later slid into a Days Inn and then sat closed for about six years, caught in a prior investor's Ponzi case. AJ Capital Partners and Centrum Properties took over in late 2010 and reopened the 184-room hotel on March 8, 2012, managed by Joie de Vivre, that company's first hotel east of the Mississippi. Hirsch MPG renovated within the old room layouts and added the elevator to the rooftop bar, J. Parker. The house is now Hotel Lincoln, JdV by Hyatt. A GDS listing says the building year is 1929; the 2012 coverage and Chicago Historic Hotels say 1928, which is the year kept here.
The setting
1816 North Clark faces Lincoln Park, at a three-way corner in the neighborhood, with the zoo and the lakefront across the street and Old Town a short walk. The Sun-Times put it diagonally from brick townhouses, with Brick's pizza down a flight of stairs around the corner.
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