Café Brauer

Infobox_nrhp | name =Lincoln Park, South Pond Refectory
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caption =
location= 2021 N. Stockton Dr., Chicago, Illinois
lat_degrees = 41
lat_minutes = 55
lat_seconds = 9
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 87
long_minutes = 38
long_seconds = 2
long_direction = W
locmapin = Illinois
area =
built =1908
architect= Perkins & Hamilton
architecture= Prairie School
added = November 20, 1986
governing_body = Local
refnum=86003154cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Café Brauer (formerly South Pond Refectory) is a restaurant building and official landmark located on the grounds of Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Illinois. It was designed by Dwight H. Perkins and completed in 1908.

The building, known for its green roof, red bricks, second floor ballroom, and lagoon-side setting, has been called "an outstanding example of the Prairie School of architecture" and "perhaps the finest expression of Perkins' design philosophy". It was financed by the Brauer family of Chicago, who worked in the restaurant business, and was one of the most popular restaurants in Chicago during the early twentieth century. The restaurant closed in the 1940s, and the structure was used for storage until the Lincoln Park Zoo Society began a $4.2 million restoration project in 1987.Mark Rosenthal, Carol Tauber, and Edward Uhlir. "The Ark in the Park". University of Illinois Press, 2003. 156.]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986,, and it received Chicago Landmark status on February 5, 2003. [ [http://www.cityofchicago.org/Landmarks/S/SouthPond.html South Pond Refectory] . City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Landmarks Division (2003). Retrieved on 11 December 2007.]

The building is located on the site of the South Pond Refectory, a wood-frame boathouse and restaurant designed by William Le Baron Jenney which was open from 1882 until 1908. Café Brauer is sometimes called the South Pond Refectory, the primary name for the site used in its National Register nomination.

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