Background
Charles D. Wetmore was born in 1867 in Elmira, New York, United States.
Charles D. Wetmore was born in 1867 in Elmira, New York, United States.
After attending the city schools (Elmira)he completed a formal education at Harvard, where he was graduated in 1889.
He joined Whitney Warren in partnership after studies. Two of the firm’s major works were the New York Central R.R. Terminal and the adjoining Biltmore Hotel, while other important buildings erected from the firm’s plans include the Aeolian Hall, and the following Hotels: the Ritz Carlton, the Commodore; Ambassador; the Vanderbilt (1912), and additions to the Plaza Hotel, all in New York. Warren & Wetmore also designed the Ritz Carlton in Atlantic City, N. J., the Belmont in Providence, R. I., the Westchester, Rye, N. Y., the Broadmoore, Colorado Springs, Colo., and the Royal Hawaiian in Honolulu, completed in 1937.