15/10/2022
Hollenbeck Presbyterian
Church (now Iglesia Bautista Unida)•1884 located on 132 N Chicago in Boyle Heights, California 📍
“One of the oldest wooden churches still standing in Los Angeles, founded by John Edward Hollenbeck. He started the Hollenbeck HOTEL (long gone since 1933, after 49 years of business), and two parks are named after him, Hollenbeck PARK of Los Angeles and Covina, California
Hollenbeck also once owned lands in East Los Angeles, California that he gave to the City. It is in the Hollenbeck Area-Boyle Heights Area of East L.A. And his wife ELIZABETH Hollenbeck who founded Hollenbeck Home, a retirement estate that is now Hollenbeck Palms. And long after their deaths, Hollenbeck Police Station, Hollenbeck Jr. High School, Hollenbeck Masonic Lodge, and many others are named after them in Los Angeles. They had one son John E. Hollenbeck, Jr. who died when still a young boy. Elizabeth was born in Germany, and died in Los Angeles in 1918. Their graves are at Evergreen Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California.”
