Alfred Rosenheim was one of the leading architects in Los Angeles, California in the early part of the 20th century.
14 Facts About Alfred Rosenheim
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When he returned from Germany, Alfred Rosenheim was a student at Washington University in St Louis from 1876 to 1879.
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Alfred Rosenheim next attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 1879 to 1881.
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When Major Lee died in 1885, Alfred Rosenheim took over the practice.
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From 1897 to 1899, he worked in a partnership with his younger brother, Samuel F Rosenheim, with Alfred working in Boston and Samuel in St Louis.
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In 1899, Alfred Rosenheim returned to St Louis, where he remained until 1903.
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In 1902, Rosenheim received a commission from Herman W Hellman to design the Hellman Building, which was to be the largest steel-frame building in Los Angeles.
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Alfred Rosenheim moved to Los Angeles in February 1903 to personally oversee its construction, which continued until November 1904.
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Additional commissions followed in Los Angeles, where Alfred Rosenheim built his practice and remained for the rest of his life.
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The Hollenbeck school was a departure for Alfred Rosenheim, considered "modern" by many at the time.
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Alfred Rosenheim was reluctant to acknowledge the school as modern and wrote the following in the April 1939 issue of The Architect and Engineer:.
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The Alfred Rosenheim-drafted plans were then approved at a special meeting of the commission held in Alfred Rosenheim's office on a Saturday morning.
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Alfred Rosenheim insisted he had done nothing improper, but the City Council unanimously voted to remove him, and the local branch of the American Institute of Architects recommended a term of suspension from its ranks.
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Alfred Rosenheim died of heart disease at California Hospital in 1943 at age 84.