Hagemann, Frederick

Frederick Hagemann, a native of Germany, acquired a ranch property in the 1880s that is now on the eastern edge of the City of Santa Cruz, above Santa Cruz Harbor. The land has become the Arana Gulch Open Space.

• Arana Gulch Open Space, City of Santa Cruz
• John L. Chase, The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture (4th ed. 2023), Chapter Six, entry (26), page 195

In the 1890s, Hagemann built the Hagemann Hotel on Pacific Avenue, now the Santa Cruz Metro Center. Further up Pacific was a 2-story commercial structure known as the Hagemann-Mcpherson building. For many years it housed Hotel Waldo, and later became known as the Elks Building. City Stable occupied the site previously. The the Hagemann-Mcpherson building was demolished following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

• John L. Chase, The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture (4th ed. 2023), Chapter Five, entry (34), page 152