Architect Harry Hayden Whitely, born in 1890 in Bakersfield, California, studied drafting and worked as the chief draftsman for Twentieth Century Fox in 1920 after serving in World War I. Whiteley graduated in 1924 from the University of Southern California with a degree in engineering. He designed elegant residences in Beverly Hills before World War II, working among the architects Paul Revere Williams, Frank Taylor, and Adrian Wilson.

Frances Intravia was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 20, 1925 as Frances Laura Dodd to Jesse Dodd and Laura Nee Thomas. She married Joseph Intravia on September 7, 1964 and the couple moved to Las Vegas, Nevada shortly after, where Intravia died on September 15, 2013.