Hermann Riediger and Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel Collection
Scope and Contents
The Herman Riediger and Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel Collection contains correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, advertisements, magazines, printed materials, certificates, programs, 1 cookbook written by Hermann Riediger, Pompano High School yearbooks, and objects. Materials document Hermann Riediger as the Food and Beverage Control Manager at the Lauderdale Beach Hotel and his daughter, Kathryn Riediger Heinley.
Dates
- 1939 - 2005
Conditions Governing Access
The Hermann Riediger and Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel Collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
The Lauderdale Beach Hotel operated from 1936 to 2004 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Miami Beach architect Roy F. France designed the Art Deco style hotel and it was the first hotel building constructed on Fort Lauderdale Beach. The hotel attracted many tourists, boosting Fort Lauderdale’s tourism industry. An additional six-story addition was built circa 1937 to increase the hotel capacity to 150 rooms. From June 1943 to January 1946, Lauderdale Beach Hotel and Trade Winds Hotel served as a United States Navy Training Center. The hotel reopened to the public in 1946 and expanded its capacity to 200 rooms in 1988.
The Fort Lauderdale Historic Preservation Board designated Lauderdale Beach Hotel as a historic landmark in 2004. In 2005, a portion of the hotel building was demolished to make room for a new condominium development called Las Olas Beach Club.
Hermann Harold Riediger (1911-1998) worked as the Food and Beverage Control Manager at the Lauderdale Beach Hotel. Originally from Western Canada, Hermann held previous positions in Canadian hotels and the Princess Hotel in Bermuda. Hermann Riediger began his career as a bellhop at the Lauderdale Beach Hotel and worked his way up to assistant manager in 1956.
Hermann married Greta Hall (1916-2005) in 1936 and they settled in the Lauderdale-By-the-Sea community in Fort Lauderdale. Greta Riediger was a founding member of the Lauderdale-By-the-Sea Garden Club. Hermann and Greta Riediger’s daughter, Kathryn “Kathy” Riediger Heinley attended Broward County public schools. She won the Miss-Lauderdale-By-the-Sea pageant in 1964.
Extent
3 Hollinger Boxes
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection is organized into six series: Series I: Correspondence, Series II. Lauderdale Beach Hotel, Series III. Hermann Riediger Materials, Series IV. Kathryn "Kathy" Riediger Heinley Materials, Series V. Lauderdale-By-the-Sea Community, and Series VI. Printed Materials and Objects.
Processing Information
This collection received file level processing. This finding aid may be updated to reflect new descriptions as well as acquisitions to the collection.
- Certificates Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Clippings Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- High schools -- Florida -- Pompano Beach Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hospitality industry -- Florida -- Fort Lauderdale Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hotels -- Employees Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hotels -- Florida -- Fort Lauderdale Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lauderdale-by-the-Sea (Fla.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Programs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- School yearbooks Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- printed ephemera Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Hermann Riediger and Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Emily Calderon
- Date
- June 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for uncoded script
Repository Details
Part of the Broward County Historical Archives Repository
100 S Andrews Avenue
Fort Lauderdale Florida 33301 United States
954-357-7444
