Relatively little is known about Charles S. Holloway's professional training or career. His name first appears in the listing of architects in the 1900 St. Louis City Directory and disappears after 1913.

Apparently he worked briefly with Adler & Sullivan's man in St. Louis, Charles K. Ramsey, and with Jerome B. Legg.

In addition to the James and Nellie Howe residence in Webster Groves, commissions Holloway received on his own include designs for high schools in Fayette and Moberly, Missouri; a summer home in Michigan; a country house in Sulphur Springs; a town house in Chicago; two residences in St. Louis' West End; and at least one other house in Webster Groves.

For the first twelve years of his practice, Holloway maintained an office in downtown St. Louis. In 1913, he acquired a partner and moved to 4661 Maryland Avenue near his home in the city's Central West End. But Holloway had not planned to be living there: A Globe-Democrat article in 1906, "Unique Home for Architect," features a drawing and short description about a house Holloway had designed for himself in the new University Heights subdivision in University City. The story identifies Art Nouveau and "modernized" Swiss (!) as his two sources of stylistic inspiration.

If the house was built, and it seems doubtful, Holloway did not move in. A similar house built in 1905 at the southwest corner of Raymond and Kingshighway has been razed.

The answer to a tantalizing question about a very different extant building may be turned up with additional research. The Brickbuilder magazine in August 1901 carried a small note: "Italian Catholic Church, $50,000, Grand Avenue, Classical design, C. S. Holloway, architect." Is this St. Teresa of Avila located on the northwest corner of north Grand and North Market? No architect is noted on the building permit or in the Daily Record, but the permit for St. Teresa dated 9/29/1899 was indeed for a Roman Catholic church costing $50,000. Contemporary accounts of the laying of the cornerstone and the dedication ceremonies describe the building but fail to mention its architect.

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