Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Hollwedel, H. C. 1875 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

H. C. HOLLWEDEL, well-known citizen of Santa Monica, is a native of New York
City, where he was born January 21st, 1875. His father, Carsten Hollwedel, a
native of Germany, was a successful contracting builder in New York for many
years. Mr. Hollwedel grew up in the city, passed through the New York public
schools taking, also, instruction from a private tutor and latterly special
courses in building construction and architecture. He then embarked in business
as an architect and took up as a specialty heavy steel construction work. During
the fifteen years of active experience, he erected several of the large business
structures in modern New York, involving a most thorough and technical knowledge
of the vast detail involved in heavy construction work of a most exacting and
complicated nature. One of these buildings, which stands as lasting evidence of
Mr. Hollwedel's skill, is 116 feet by 180 feet, two stories below the ground
surface and the foundations embedded thirty feet in solid rock, while it stands
sixteen stories above the street. Another building at the corner of Broadway and
50th street, also one at Broadway and 62nd street, are of similar dimensions and
construction. Mr. Hollwedel also designed and built for wealthy New Yorkers
country seats on Long Island. Some of the most elegant and expensive bronze show
windows in New York are of Mr. Hollwedel's design. He further had entire charge
of and control of all construction work of one of the large and wealthy estates
in New York City which involved great variety. By reason of over-work and ill
health, Mr. Hollwedel was compelled to relinquish business. He came to
California and located at Santa Monica in September, 1906, purchasing property
at Fourth and Washington street, where he has erected one of the finest modern
residences in the city. He has also made liberal investments in other Santa
Monica property.

Mr. Hollwedel has taken an active part in the civic and commercial betterment of
Santa Monica. He is a material factor in the successful promotion and work of
the Santa Monica Board of Trade and is its Vice-President. He is at present City
Inspector of Construction on the new city ocean pier now in course of
construction at the foot of Colorado street, which pier is of reinforced
concrete and the first of its kind on the Pacific Coast. He is a deservedly
popular citizen.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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