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Flemish House of Chicago


 Address: 68 East Cedar Street
Chicago, Illinois,
60611, US
 Phone: (312) 664 9981


Direct link to the website:
www.innchicago.com
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B&B Location
 City Center
Policies
 Major Credit Cards accepted
  Non-Smoking
  Travellers Cheques accepted
Room Amenities
 Air Conditioning
  Hairdryer
  Iron/Ironing Boards
 In-room Phone
  Refrigerator
  Radio
Business Amenities
 Fax on Site
  Dial-up Internet Connection
Inn Amenities
 Coffee/Tea Services- Tray-in-Bed
  Guest Accessible Fully Equipped Kitchen
  Laundry
 Baggage storage facilities
  Breakfast in room
  Central heating
 Clothes drying
  Quiet location
Flemish House of Chicago offers serviced apartments with stocked kitchens in downtown Chicago, steps from Michigan Avenue shopping, Oak Street Beach and our magnificent lakefront parks.

We offer comfortably furnished studio and one-bedroom apartments in an 1890s greystone row house. Our renovation has kept the best of the old while updating kitchens and baths. The apartments are available for short-term stays (two-night minimum mid-week; three-night minimum weekends) or as furnished corporate units by the week or month (monthly rentals vary seasonally and are typically not available May through December).

We are located in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood, the premier residential area on the city's North Side. Luxury high-rises and rows of century-old mansions reside in quiet contrast to the lively stores, restaurants and nightspots of Michigan Avenue and Rush Street. The “Loop” financial district, fabulous Navy Pier and our world-class museums are only minutes away by bus, car or taxi.

In the 1920s the four row houses to our east were torn down for construction of the 15-story luxury cooperative next door. Sometime between World Wars I and II, the building was divided into apartments. Fortunately, many original features of the home were saved.

The first floor front apartment was the original double parlor, and the first floor rear studio apartment was the formal dining room. The upper floors contained bedroom suites for the family, which are now studio and one-bedroom apartments.

Your hosts, Mike Maczka and Tom Warnke, live in the building. We bought the property in July of 1997 and since then have undertaken a sensitive renovation program. Vintage amenities vary, but our guest apartments feature some combination of wood-paneled rooms, fireplaces, in-laid wood floors, high ceilings, and decorative moldings. We have chosen an English Arts & Crafts motif for the decor, popular in the late-Victorian period. Beds include all-cotton linens, wool and cotton blankets, down comforters and both down and hypoallergenic pillows. All kitchens are totally new and self-contained with refrigerator, gas range, sink, microwave oven, dishes, cookware and utensils. Bathrooms have new fixtures and tile. Each apartment includes a private phone line, cordless phone with answering machine, color television with cable channels, VCR, and individually-controlled air conditioning.

High-speed wireless internet (Wi-Fi) access available in all guest rooms. Guests can send and receive e- mail, surf the Internet, access Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and more from their own laptop computers. The service uses the 802.11b protocol and is an independent network run by HotSpotHere, Inc.
Area Activities
 Gardens/arboretum
Overview
We are located in the Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago. This is the premier residential neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side, and is considered the "old money" section of town. It is also the ideal area for out-of-town guests!

To the east is Lake Shore Drive and Oak Street Beach. To the south is the Oak Street boutique district and Michigan Avenue’s world class shopping. To the west is the restaurant and nightlife district of Rush, State, and Division Streets. North of us, the Gold Coast historic district continues, and beyond is the lakefront's Lincoln Park and Lincoln Park Zoo.

Shopping
What can be said about North Michigan Avenue – Chicago’s Magnificent Mile? From Tiffany’s to Filene’s Basement, you will find a complete range of retailers. In addition to flagship stores for the country’s best known specialty chains (Crate and Barrel, Borders Books, FAO Schwartz, The Gap, Pottery Barn, Ralph Lauren, Banana Republic, Niketown, Disney, American Girl) Michigan Avenue has four vertical shopping malls with department store anchors: Water Tower Place (Marshall Field’s, Lord and Taylor), 900 North Michigan (Bloomingdale’s), Chicago Place (Saks Fifth Avenue), and the newly opened North Bridge (Nordstrom’s).

Oak Street boutiques include Marilyn Miglin, Ultimo, Jil Sander, Hermes, Prada, Pratesi, Judith Ripka, St. John’s, Donald Pliner, Sulka and Barney’s New York department store.

Sightseeing
“Tourist-Central” is the Chicago Water Works across from the Old Water Tower at Michigan Avenue and Pearson Street. Here you can browse in the Visitors Information Center and gift shop, get a bite at Flatsammies, buy theater tickets at Hot-Tix!, or get on a sightseeing bus or horse drawn carriage for a guided tour.

The Observatory at the John Hancock Center, 875 North Michigan Avenue, takes you up to perhaps the most dramatic view of the city as you look down 96 stories to Oak Street Beach. You can get the same view, however, without the admission fee if you go for a drink at the Signature Room one floor below. (Take the elevators in the office lobby on the street level). The drinks are a bit more expensive than average, but the view can be priceless!

Much of the Gold Coast consists of historically significant residential buildings from the turn of the twentieth century. The most pleasant strolling streets are Bellevue, Cedar, and Elm (running east/west south of Division Street) and Astor, State, and Dearborn (running north/south north of Division Street).

A nearby house museum that is often not included in the tourist guidebooks is the Charnley-Persky House. Located at 1365 North Astor Street at Schiller (about three blocks north of The Flemish House of Chicago), this house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright while he was employed by Louis Sullivan. It shows the influence of two of America’s most celebrated architects! Now owned by the Society of Architectural Historians, the house is open for tours Wednesdays at noon, and Saturdays at 10:00 A.
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