Torchiana, Henry A.

Henry Albert van Coenen Torchiana (1867-1940) was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1895, and came to Santa Cruz in 1894. He was serving as Consul General of The Netherlands to the U.S. in 1908 when he and his wife Catherine purchased a hillside estate above High Street. In 1933 he wrote what is still the most complete history we have of Mission Santa Cruz.

• Chase, John L., The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture (4th ed. 2023), Chapter Four, item (73), page 119
• A. T. Leonard,; "Henry A. Van Coenen Torchiana, 1867-1940". California Historical Society Quarterly 1 March 1940; 19 (1): 87. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/25160867
• Torchiana, Henry Albert van Coenen. Story of the Mission Santa Cruz. San Francisco: Paul Elder and Co., 1933.