Levi Johnson Dean

Levi Johnson Dean (1878-1951) was a West Virginia-based architect.

Biography He was born in Gassaway, Braxton County, West Virginia in 1878. His father, George W. Dean, served in the Confederate army and was a boat builder and millwright. His mother was Mary Jane Davis and he was one of thirteen children. Levi J. Dean married Ada Leonora Johnson in 1901, and they had three children. Following Ada's death in 1910, he married Susie Ada Turner in 1912, and they had three children. Two of these, Keith and Brooks, became architects and practiced with Levi in the Huntington firm of Dean and Dean.

Dean studied architecture in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He began his practice, with mechanics, in Charleston and relocated to Huntington in 1906. He briefly formed a partnership, but later went into business alone in 1910. 1940: R. T. Price House, Williamson, West Virginia, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 1940: Nicholas County Courthouse, Summersville, West Virginia, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Contributing properties to historic districts Clendenin Historic District Downtown Richwood Historic District Matewan Historic District Ripley Historic District