William F. Curlett (County Down, Ireland, March 3, 1846 – January 21, 1914, San Francisco) and Alexander Edward Curlett (called Aleck) (San Francisco, February 6, 1881 – September 5, 1942) were a father-and-son pair of architects. They worked together as partners under the name of William Curlett and Son, Architects from . Aleck Curlett partnered with Claud Beelman as Curlett & Beelman (1919–1932).

The San Francisco firm of Curlett, Eisen, & Cuthbertson, Architects, was active in the 1880s; it designed the Los Angeles County Courthouse in 1887. In 1888, the firm occupied Room #41 of the Downey Block. (See Los Angeles, California, City Directory, 1888, p. 768.)

Works National Register of Historic Places A number of works by either or both Curletts are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. These works (in California unless otherwise noted) include:

William Curlett Theodore F. Payne House (1881), San Francisco Mutual Savings Bank Building (1902), San Francisco Packard Library (1906), Marysville Phelan Building (1908), San Francisco Villa Montalvo (1914), Saratoga Haas Californiandy Factory, San Francisco

Alex and William Curlett Hotel Congress (1918), Tucson, Arizona Rialto Theatre (1920), Tucson, Arizona Rialto Building, Tucson, Arizona

Alex Curlett Building at 816 South Grand Avenue (1924), Los Angeles Roosevelt Building (1926), Los Angeles Fifth Street Store Building (1927), Los Angeles Board of Trade Building (1929), Los Angeles Equitable Building of Hollywood (1929/1931), Los Angeles

Curlett & Beelman Cooper Arms Apartments (1923), Long Beach Culver Hotel (1924), Culver City Chester Williams Building (1926), Los Angeles Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building (1928), Los Angeles Security Building (1928), Phoenix, Arizona

Other works Other of their works include:

New Lanfranco Block (1888), Los Angeles, with Eisen and Cuthbertson Potomac Block (1890), Los Angeles, with Block and Eisen St. Mark's Episcopal Church (1902), Berkeley Foreman & Clark Building (1929), Los Angeles, with Beelman Commercial Club of Southern California, Los Angeles

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