Difference between revisions of "Hollins, Marion"

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Marion Hollins (1892-1944), born in New York, came to Santa Cruz from Monterey in the 1920s to purchase land on which to develop a golf/residential planned community she named "Pasatiempo". Hollins bought the property from heirs of F. W. Billing, who had acquired it from the estate of William Kerr.

• Pasatiempo: History and Architecture of a Planned Development (republication of 1979 Chapter Eleven from The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture (2005 book))
• The Pasatiempo Story, by Margaret Koch (1990)
• "Forward --- Santa Cruz", Santa Cruz Evening News, 5 September 1929, p15-36. This special issue from just before the stock market crash includes articles on Pasatiempo, Marion Hollins, Hotel Palomar, Andy Balich, Casa del Rey apartments, hotel history, Wilson Bros. realty, and general Santa Cruz history.