Harry Hayden Whiteley Photograph Collection (PH-00073)

Architect Harry Hayden Whiteley, born in 1890 in Bakersfield, California, studied drafting and worked as the chief draftsman for Twentieth Century Fox in 1920. Whiteley graduated in 1924 from the University of Southern California with a degree in engineering. He designed residences in Beverly Hills, California before World War II, working among the architects Paul Revere Williams, Frank Taylor, and Adrian Wilson. He came to Henderson, Nevada in 1942 to work for McNeil Construction Company designing workers' housing for the Basic Magnesium Incorporated (BMI) plant. Whiteley moved to San Diego, California in 1943, where he worked until returning to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1951. Upon returning to Las Vegas, he designed public school buildings for three years before developing a business designing tract housing for new subdivisions. Whiteley designed a number of commercial buildings, public buildings, and recreational spaces, and also worked as the consulting architect for Adrian Wilson on the Las Vegas Convention Center. Whiteley died in 1970.

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Office of Historical Resources and Cultural Heritage Commission. "Boulevard Heights H.H. Whiteley Mansion." Los Angeles Department of City Planning. September 3, 2015. Accessed January 10, 2020. https://planning.lacity.org/StaffRpt/CHC/09-03-15/9.%20Boulevard%20Heights%20H.H.%20Whiteley%20Mansion_FINAL.pdf