Hyde Park's intellectual gravity — the University of Chicago, the Museum of Science and Industry, the ghosts of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition — gives the Sophy Hyde Park an unusually strong sense of place for a hotel that opened in 2018. The eight-storey brick building at 53rd Street and South Cornell Avenue was purpose-built rather than converted, its dark masonry and steel-mullioned factory windows carrying the massing of a late industrial warehouse while sitting comfortably among the neighborhood's early twentieth-century apartment blocks. The ground floor houses Mesler, a restaurant and bar whose name recalls the area's deep Chicago history, its interior anchored by a marble-topped bar under an oval halo of bare-bulb pendants and a swirling marbled ceiling treatment that veers closer to a Florentine palazzo than a Chicago tavern. The 98 rooms were designed with an art program at their center rather than as an afterthought — large-scale abstract murals mounted behind the cream upholstered headboards dissolve the boundary between artwork and architectural surface, the teal, indigo, and ochre palette bleeding into geometric-patterned rugs in navy and white and dark-stained wide-plank oak floors. The dining room at Mesler layers the same sensibility differently: yellow leather club chairs arranged around a carved pedestal table, gallery-hung artwork covering paneled walls from dado to cornice, built-in bookshelves giving the room the atmosphere of a well-loved faculty club rather than a hotel restaurant.

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Sophisticated and eclectic, SOPHY® Hyde Park embodies the crafts and passions of art, science, literature, and music that are the inspiration of today’s Hyde Park. SOPHY® infuses the community’s academic and artistic contributions, allowing the curious visitor to delight in discoveries at every turn from arrival to departure. SOPHY® is ideally situated mere minutes away from The University of Chicago, McCormick Place Convention Center, and The Museum of Science & Industry. As well, SOPHY® is also a brief 10 minute drive from the heart of downtown Chicago and its countless restaurants, shops and entertainment destinations. SOPHY® is centrally located in the heart of downtown Hyde Park within easy walking distance of the many boutique retail and restaurant locations along the 53rd Street Corridor. We look forward to welcoming you to SOPHY® Hyde Park.