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![The stress and long hours working on the tunnel project caused him to have a nervous breakdown, and he went to a sanatorium in Battle Creek, Michigan, in order to recover.[1] On October 27, 1924, Holland died of a heart attack there, at the age of 41.[1] He died one day before the final charge of dynamite connected the two tunnels.[10] At the time of his death, he lived at 2416 Avenue J in Midwood, Brooklyn.[10] The funeral service was held at the Lefferts Place Chapel.[10] Milton Harvey Freeman took over as chief engineer on the project after Holland's death.[11] Freeman died five months later.[11]
The project was renamed the Holland Tunnel in his memory by the New York State Bridge and Tunnel Commission and the New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission on its opening day, November 12, 1924, sixteen days after Holland's death.[12] At the time it opened, the Holland Tunnel was the first vehicular tunnel in the United States and the fifth in the world.[13]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uwf3zijmin4sczphcpm7srjx/bafkreig7p5ktdxihnz436xouzyrpmzyoe5e6trsk7yox4f5kmiea6vwxay)
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