• Date: 1930
• Style: Art Deco
• Architect: Willard M. Ellwood
• District: Downtown Historic Registry

The Hoffman Hotel is located on LaSalle Avenue just west of the LaSalle Hotel. This 12-story building is constructed of red brick with limestone trim and terra-cotta mosaic tile details. Hoffman Hotel was designed by Willard M. Ellwood, a local architect who worked with Frank Lloyd Wright on the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. Built in 1930 at a cost of $500,000, Hoffman Hotel was partially owned by Jacob Hoffman, who was the manager of the LaSalle Hotel and the LaSalle Annex. The hotel had 21 small apartments and 150 guest rooms. Located directly across from the Chicago, South Bend and South Shore Railroad station, it was one of three hotels at the intersection that catered to disembarking passengers. An enclosed second-story connector was built between the Hoffman and the LaSalle Hotels on LaSalle Avenue. Hoffman Hotel is an excellent example of the eclecticism of the early twentieth century. Although the first floor has been modernized with glass and aluminum display windows and a new entrance, the remainder of the exterior is unaltered.

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