Kenwood Neighborhood Real Estate

Kenwood, located on the South Side of the City of Chicago, Illinois, is one of the 77 well-defined Chicago community areas. Kenwood contains some of the largest homes in the city. Kenwood was once one of the most elite neighborhoods in all of Chicago. The official community areas were defined in the early 20th century and the area including both the Hyde Park neighborhood and South Kenwood (the part of Kenwood South of 47th Street) are sometimes collectively referred to as Hyde Park, Hyde Park-Kenwood, or Hyde Park-South Kenwood.

Once referred to as the "Lake Forest of the South Side," Kenwood developed as a residential suburb between the late 1850s and the 1880s. Kenwood's large single-family residences, set on spacious lots, made the neighborhood unique in Chicago. Influential architects who designed houses in the district include George Maher, Benjamin Marshall, Howard Van Doren Shaw, and Frank Lloyd Wright. The district represents one of the city's best collections of architectural styles, ranging from Italinate, Colonial Revival, Queen Anne and Prairie School.

Madison Park, one of only three remaining private parks in the City of Chicago, is on the southern end of Kenwood between Woodlawn and Dorchester avenues. Two blocks to the east is the Chicago Public Schools' Kenwood Academy. Kenwood is part of Hyde Park Township that was annexed by the City of Chicago in 1889. Among its most famous structures is the Blackstone Library, built in 1902, that continues to be part of the Chicago Public Library system.

The southeast portion of this neighborhood includes the Indian Village neighborhood, which includes the National Register of Historic Places-designated (NRHP) Narragansett, the Chicago Landmark Powhatan Apartments, and the NRHP site of the former Chicago Beach Hotel that now hosts Regents Park is also in the neighborhood. The tallest building in Kenwood is the South Tower of Regents Park.

The recently re-opened Hyde Park Art Center, located on Cornell Ave. just north of 51st Street/E. Hyde Park Blvd., is Chicago's oldest alternative exhibition space, with an on-site school and studio and an extensive outreach program. Notable Kenwood residents have included: Muhammad Ali, United States Senator Carol Moseley Braun, Louis Farrakhan, Robert Gomer, Edward Levi, Ann Marie Lipinski, Elijah Muhammad, United States President Barack Obama, Julius Rosenwald, Bill Veeck, Leopold and Loeb.

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