Whidden, Robert K.

Robert K. [Kirk] Whidden was a downtown Santa Cruz developer in the 1870s. The 1877 structure that survives today as Santa Cruz Hotel was a Whidden project.

• John L. Chase, The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture (4th ed. 2023), two entries: Chapter Five, item (9), page 136; Chapter Three, item (7), page 58