Heth Wharton (April 18, 1892 – October 28, 1958) was an American architect. He grew up in Virginia, and he was a draughtsman for Hunt & Chambers. With architect Ralph A. Vaughn, he designed Chase Knolls Apartments in

Sherman Oaks Sherman Oaks (founded in 1927) is a neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles, California within the San Fernando Valley region. The neighborhood includes a portion of the Santa Monica Mountains, which gives Sherman Oaks a lower population densit ...

and Lincoln Place in

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. Wharton was involved in a legal dispute with film director John Cromwell and actress

Kay Johnson Catherine Townsend Johnson (November 29, 1904 – November 17, 1975) was an American stage and film actress. Family Johnson’s father was architect Thomas R. Johnson, the architect of several noteworthy buildings in New York City, inclu ...

when he tried to overcharge them for a house he designed for them in 1934; the couple won the lawsuit.

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