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The Narragansett is a historic apartment building at 1640 E. 50th Street in the Kenwood neighborhood of 
The building was added to the
Chicago
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. The building was built in 1928 at the peak of apartment construction in Chicago, as apartments had grown in popularity throughout the early 20th century. It was one of several apartments built in the Chicago Beach Development, a lakefront property that was developed into a fashionable neighborhood known as Indian Village. Architects Leichenko and Esser designed the Art Deco
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building. The 22-story building features brick pier
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s spanning its entire height, terra cotta
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spandrel
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s dividing each floor, and decorative limestone
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on the first three floors.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places
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on April 18, 2005.
References
Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Chicago Apartment buildings in Chicago Art Deco architecture in Illinois Residential buildings completed in 1928 {{CookCountyIL-NRHP-stub