The Somerset Hotel is a historic hotel building located at 1152-1154 S. Wabash Ave. in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1892–93, the hotel was originally owned by physician Frank Stringfield. Architect Jules De Horvath designed the hotel in the Romanesque Revival style. De Horvath's design bore similarities to the 1888 Virginia Hotel at Ohio and Rush Streets.
The hotel was part of a hotel and commercial district between the 12th Street station on the South Side Elevated Railroad and Central Station. Over the years, the building underwent several name changes. It was renamed the Mayer Hotel in 1910, and then changed again to the Hotel Roosevelt in the 1920s. It kept the name Hotel Roosevelt until the 1990s.
The Somerset Hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 3, 2000. The building currently stands as a residential structure at its original location on South Wabash Avenue.
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