Senior architect, South Park Board, City of Chicago, IL; Seaman, United States Navy, Great Lakes Training Station, 1918-1920; Draftsman, Rapp and Rapp, Architects, Chicago, IL, 1921; Principal, S. Charles Lee, Architect, Los Angeles, CA, 1922-1948; Partner, Lee and [Samuel] Hayden, Architects, Los Angeles, CA, 1948-;

Lee was licensed by State of Illinois to practice architecture in 1922. He founded the S. Charles Lee Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, in 1962, and established the S. Charles Lee Chair, UCLA Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Los Angeles, CA, in 1986.

Included in the "International Exhibit of Contemporary Architects," staged by Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), London, UK, 1934; Lee received the Presidential Medal, Order of Vasco Nuñez Balboa, Panama's highest order of merit in 1968. Lee was named the Panamanian Vice-Consul, Beverly Hills, CA, by President of Panama, 1963, and named Consul in Beverly Hills for Panama in 1974.

Lee's papers are housed in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Library, Department of Special Collections, Young Research Library, Collection #1384. According to its UCLA finding aid, the collection contained "...drawings, renderings, blueprints, photographs, and surveys relating to Lee's professional career including his work as a developer and the most prolific architect of art deco movie palaces in Los Angeles." (See "Finding Aid for the S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962,"Accessed 02/25/2011.)

Graduate with Honors, Technical College, Chicago, IL, 1918-1920; graduate, Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, 1921;

Lee was born in Chicago, IL, and moved to Los Angeles, CA, in 1921, opening his own architectural practice there one year later.

Lee was born Simeon Charles Levi, son of Julius and Hattie Stiller Levi, German-Jewish immigrants.

Lee married Miriam (Midge) Zelda Aisenstein (d. 1960) in Los Angeles, CA, in 1927. He married Hylda Moss, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1966;

Lee's daughter, Constance, was born in 1928, Los Angeles, CA.

Lee was known professionally as "S. Charles Lee." SSN: 554-14-6760; Treasurer, Board of Directors, Braille Institute, Los Angeles, CA; Lee obtained a license as a radio operator in 1915 and a pilot in 1935.

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