Harold Levitt (1921–2003) was an American architect.
Early life Harold Warren Levitt was born on July 26, 1921, in San Francisco, California.Harold Levitt, 81; Architect Created Homes for Stars of Show Business, The Los Angeles Times, April 29, 2003Levitt + Moss Architects He received a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Arts from Stanford University and an architecture degree from the University of Southern California.
Career He worked for Roland Coate and Burton Schutt before he founded his own architectural company, Levitt, LeDuc & Farwell, in the 1950s. The company was headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. He designed homes for Walter Mirisch, Steven Spielberg, Lew Wasserman, Olivia Newton-John, Ross Hunter, Quincy Jones, Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Debbie Reynolds, Lionel Richie, Kenny Rogers and Hal Wallis.Kate Buford, Burt Lancaster: An American Life, Da Capo Press, 2009, p. 233 He also designed the Riviera Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip and the headquarters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills.Walter Mirisch, I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History, Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008, p. 178
Personal life He was married to Jane (Spalding) Levitt for fifty-eight years, and they had a son, Lansford. He retired to Reno, Nevada, in 2001.
Death He died at his holiday home in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2003.
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