| Albert Clay Bilicke | |
| Birth Date: | 22 June 1861 |
| Birth Place: | Coos County, Oregon, United States |
| Death Place: | At sea (RMS Lusitania) |
| Spouse: | Gladys Huff Bilicke (m. September 10, 1900) [1] |
| Children: | Albert Constant Bilicke (b. 1902) Nancy Caroline Bilicke (b. 1903) Carl Archibald Bilicke (b. 1907) [2] |
Albert Clay Bilicke (June 22, 1861 – May 7, 1915) was a millionaire hotelier and builder in Los Angeles. Bilicke and his father ran the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Tombstone, Arizona. After it was destroyed by a fire in 1882 he moved to California. In Los Angeles he built the Hotel Alexandria (1906) and was president of the Alexandria Hotel Company. He partnered with Robert Rowan in a building company. He was presumed drowned after being lost at sea while a passenger on the Cunard liner RMS Lusitania which was sunk by a German torpedo off the coast of Ireland. His wife Gladys survived. [3] [4] [5]
His parents were German immigrants and his father was the proprietor of the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Tombstone, Arizona. Bilicke was born in Coos Bay, Oregon.[6]
Bilicke was acquainted with Wyatt Earp and testified at his trial after the shooting at the O.K. Corral.[7]
The Cosmopolitan was destroyed by a fire in 1882. A. C. Bilicke planned to rebuild it.[8]
Bilicke bought the Hollenbeck Hotel in Los Angeles in 1893. He joined with Robert Rowan to form the Bilicke-Rowan Fireproof Building Company, a construction firm the built the Alexandria Hotel.[9] The Rowan Building in Los Angeles is named for Rowan.