The Brewster Apartments is a residential building in the Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park, Chicago

Lincoln Park, is one of the 77 community areas on Chicago, Illinois North Side, USA. Named after Lincoln Park, a vast park bordering Lake Michigan, the community area is anchored by the Lincoln Park Zoo and DePaul University...

 neighborhood of Chicago

Chicago

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, Illinois

Illinois

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. Located at 2800 North Pine Grove Avenue, it was designed by the architect Enoch Hill Turnock

Enoch Hill Turnock

-Family background:Enock was born on February 27, 1857, in London, England to Richard and Elizabeth Turnock. His father made several trips to America and in 1871 moved his family here. The family voyaged on the Cuba and after several weeks at sea they landed in New York City. After visiting with...

 and built in 1893. The building was designated a Chicago Landmark

Chicago Landmark

Chicago Landmark is a designation of the Mayor of Chicago and the Chicago City Council for historic buildings and other sites in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Listed sites are selected after meeting a combination of criteria, including historical, economic, architectural, artistic, cultural,...

 on October 6, 1982.

Architecture

The building employs skeleton-frame

Steel frame

Steel frame usually refers to a building technique with a "skeleton frame" of vertical steel columns and horizontal -beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the floors, roof and walls of a building which are all attached to the frame...

 construction, which enabled the advent of skyscraper

Skyscraper

A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many stories, often designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper...

s at the end of the 19th century. Within the external masonry

Masonry

Masonry is the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together by mortar; the term masonry can also refer to the units themselves. The common materials of masonry construction are brick, stone, marble, granite, travertine, limestone; concrete block, glass block, stucco, and...

 walls is an interior featuring open cast-iron

Cast iron

Cast iron is derived from pig iron, and while it usually refers to gray iron, it also identifies a large group of ferrous alloys which solidify with a eutectic. The color of a fractured surface can be used to identify an alloy. White cast iron is named after its white surface when fractured, due...

 stairways, bridge walkways paved with glass blocks, and a massive skylight.

In popular culture

The Brewster Apartments has served as a location in the movies Child's Play and Running Scared. Charlie Chaplin lived in the penthouse suite during the heyday of Chicago filmmaking at the Essanay Studios

Essanay Studios

The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was an American motion picture studio. It is best known today for its series of Charlie Chaplin comedies of 1915.-Founding:...

between 1915 and 1916.