Harold Kaplan (architect)

Harold Kaplan (10 September 1895 – 1 April 1973) was a Canadian architect.

Harold Kaplan
Kaplan, on the left, c. 1952
Born(1895-09-10)10 September 1895
Bucharest, Romania
Died1 April 1973(1973-04-01) (aged 77)
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
NationalityCanadian
OccupationArchitect

Biography

Born 10 September 1895, in Bucharest, Romania,[1] he moved to London at the age of three with his widowed mother, Tillie Hohan. In 1902, they moved to Toronto, and then his mother married Frank Kaplan. During his teenage years, he stayed for a while in Philadelphia with one of his relatives. After returning to Toronto, Kaplan went to Toronto Technical School where he studied architecture and building construction. He married Dorothy Spain in 1923.[1] In 1919–20, he worked at Page & Warrington. In 1922, he founded Kaplan & Sprachman with Abraham Sprachman, which is mostly recognized for designing many movie theaters across Canada from the 1920s to the 1950s, and also for designing synagogues and buildings for the Jewish communities.[2][3]

His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[3]

References
  1. "Harold S. Kaplan fonds". Ontario Jewish Archives.
  2. "Mandel Sprachman Fonds". toronto.ca.
  3. "Harold Kaplan". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
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