Charles Frederick Whittlesey

Life

Work

• Central School, 1897, Riverside, Illinois
• the Alvarado Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1902, with the interior by Mary Colter
• Whittlesey House, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1903
• Sante Fe Railroad Depot, Berkeley, California, 1903
• the Riordan family homes, now the Riordan Mansion State Historic Park, in Flagstaff, Arizona, 1904
• the George Babbitt home, 1904 Flagstaff, Arizona
• First Methodist Episcopal Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1904
• Santa Fe railroad depot Shawnee, Oklahoma. Built in 1904, the building is made of limestone blocks two to three feet thick, and assembled in the Romanesque revival style. The depot's floor plan is based on the style of early European churches. A tower resembling a Scottish lighthouse rises up from the east side of a multi-arched portico. The beautiful ceilings of the depot are made of stained boxcar siding. The structure was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. In 1977, it was traded to the City of Shawnee and is now open to the public as the Historical Society of Pottawatomie County.
• Hotel Hayward, Los Angeles, 1905
• El Tovar Hotel, Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1905. "The most expensively constructed pointed log house in America."
• Clune's Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1905–06, billed as the largest reinforced concrete structure in California, later redubbed the Philharmonic Auditorium. The auditorium "exhibited some of the most enthusiastic Sullivanesque ornament to be found in Southern California." This Moorish Revival building, described as "one of the most beautiful buildings in Los Angeles" was demolished in 1985. The site is now a parking lot.
• Hotel Wentworth, Pasadena, California, 1907, later purchased by Henry E. Huntington, reworked by Myron Hunt, and reopened as the Huntington Hotel in 1914. In 1954 the hotel complex was sold to the Sheraton Hotel chain.
• Pacific Building, San Francisco, 1907, "remarkable for its Sullivanesque terra cotta ornament", now the Palomar Hotel
• Lycurgus Lindsay House, Los Angeles, 1908
• Hueter Building, 816 Mission Street, San Francisco, 1908
• Apartment building, 1230-38 Taylor Street, San Francisco, 1909,
• seven historic houses in the Russian Hill District, San Francisco, 1910-1913
• Old Student Union, Stanford, Stanford, California, 1915
• The Leiman House on Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, California, 1921. Originally built as a side-by-side duplex home, it was converted to a single family in the 1980s by E. Lofting, then converted back to a duplex in 2011
• El Rey Hotel, Los Angeles, 1923
• the Moorish-influenced Mayflower Hotel, Los Angeles, 1927

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