Berwyn Apartments
building in Berwyn, Illinois
The Berwyn Apartments is an apartment building at 3137 Oak Park Avenue, Berwyn, Illinois. Originally the Berwyn Hotel, the building was built in 1922, at a cost of $200,000 ($3,846,918 in today's dollars). 210 guests attended a dinner-dance marking its opening in 1923. The local Kiwanis and Lions clubs held events in the hotel, as did political parties and candidates. The hotel also contained an elegant tea room and had a cigar stand in the lobby. The Berwyn Conservatory of Music held concerts in the lobby. An addition was built in 1929, at a cost of $25,000.
Originally owned by Frank Euwecke, in 1943 it was purchased by Chicago attorney Maxwell Landis. After Landis's death, ownership passed to his widow and later to his son, Floyd Landis. In 1972, it was sold to the Berwyn Hotel Corp.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q85845504. Authority coordinates are 41.835, -87.793. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1922, 1923, 1929 and 1943.
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