1640 East 50th Street, Chicago Illinois
Architects: Leichenko and Esser, 1928

The Narragansett is a 22-story concrete frame condominium building with a brick, limestone and terra cotta facade in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood.

Klein and Hoffman, Inc. has served as the architect / engineer of record for the building since 1992.  Based on the original investigation, which was completed early that year, a multi-phase rehabilitation program was implemented to restore the building’s exterior masonry walls and structural steel shelf angle supports.  Over the years, K&H has successfully completed six phases of work, which have covered over 75% of the building perimeter.    

In addition, K&H restored the existing canopy at the south entrance of the building.  This included repair of the structural steel framing elements and replacement of metal panels located at the underside of the canopy.

The last phase is expected to be completed in 2007 and includes the replacement of brick masonry and shelf angles on the west elevation as well as extensive replacement and repair of the polychromatic terra cotta spandrel panels on the south and east elevations.