Glen-Holly Hotel Explained

Glen-Holly Hotel
Status:demolished
Location:Ivar Avenue at Yucca Street
Location Town:Hollywood, California
Coordinates:34.1039°N -118.3282°W
Start Date:1887[1]
Opened Date:1895
Architect:Joakim Berg
Rooms:20

The Glen-Holly Hotel was a hotel built in the area of southern California that would later become Hollywood in 1895.[2] It was located just north of Prospect Avenue, now Hollywood Boulevard, on Ivar Avenue at Yucca Street.[3]

The Glen-Holly Hotel was the second hotel constructed in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles County (Sackett Hotel was the first). It was built by Joakim Berg, a noted artist of the 1890s in the region. At the hotel's opening, it had twenty rooms and one bath. A horse carriage called a tallyho took guests from downtown Los Angeles to the hotel.[3]

The hotel's original owner, Charles M. Pierce, became operator of the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad's Balloon Route in 1904. The hotel, a stop on the line that went from downtown Los Angeles to West Los Angeles and the west side beaches, was used by the route as lunch stop.[3] [4]

D. L. Allen later took over management of the Glen-Holly Hotel, and added a billiard hall, bowling alley, and livery service.[3] [5]

The hotel, a landmark of the area, was later demolished.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Zollo, Paul . Hollywood Remembered: An Oral History of Its Golden Age . . 2002 . 9 . 9781589796034 . 2014-01-13.
  2. Book: Williams, Gregory Paul . The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History . 2005 . 978-0-9776299-0-9 . BL Press.
  3. Web site: Early Views of Hollywood (1850–1920) . 1 . Water and Power Associates . July 28, 2024 .
  4. http://www.erha.org/balloon.htm erha.org Balloon Route line
  5. Book: Historic Hotels of Los Angeles and Hollywood . 978-0-7385-5906-3 . 108 . Arcadia Publishing . Ruth Wallach . Linda McCann . Dace Taube . Claude Zachary . Curtis C. Roseman . 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140718013201/http://www.usc.edu/libraries/subjects/slavic/documents/historichotels.pdf . July 18, 2014.