Master Architects Historical Context: Levi J. Dean
Cress DB. 2018. Master Architects Historical Context: Levi J. Dean. West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office, Department of Arts, Culture, and History; GAI Consultants, Inc.
Introduction: "Huntington-based architect Edward Tucker says that people are often surprised and impressed by the architecture found in Huntington, West Virginia. They city's extant built environment reflect Huntington's prominence during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Levi Johnson Dean can be credited for the design of several of Huntington's, and the region's, most distinctive and stylistic buildings from this period. Dean, likewise a Huntington-based architect who practiced a century prior to Tucker, was influenced by his contemporaries and larger national trends. He came from a rural background and took courses in architecture from a correspondence school, where he gained skillsets in architecture, design, and drawing. Opening his own firm in Huntington in 1910, he left a physical influence on the city and around the state through his variety of commissions." Project funding was provided in part by a Historic Preservation Fund grant to the West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office, Department of Arts, Culture, and History, administered by the State, Tribal, Local Plans and Grants division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior (grant number P18AF00021).
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Cress, Dana
- Date of Issue
- 2018-12-07
- Publisher
- West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office, Department of Arts, Culture, and History; GAI Consultants, Inc.
- Units
- HPF
- Keywords
- Historic Context Statements