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Walter Harris Ratcliff Jr.
Born 1881
London, England
Died 1978 Occupation Architect
Walter Harris Ratcliff Jr. (1881—1978) was an English-born American architect, active in Berkeley, California .[1] His work includes local landmarks and buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places . He served as Berkeley's first city architect for part of his career and is credited with helping develop the first zoning regulations in the state.[2]
Biography
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Ratcliff was born in London[2] and came to the United States in 1894.[1] Lilian Bridgman worked as a draftsperson in his office.
He partnered with John Galen Howard [1] for a short time. He also worked with Alfred Henry Jacobs (as Ratcliff & Jacobs).[2]
Ratcliff designed the John J. Cairns House at 2729 Elmwood Avenue,[3] [4] [5] Walter Keane and his wife Barbara Keane lived in it. He also designed Armstrong College 's Ratcliff building at 2222 Harold Way. Named after the architect, it is a Berkeley landmark. He designed the Charles W. Merrill House (1938) for mining engineer and San Francisco businessman Charles Washington Merrill . It is listed on the National Register. He is one of the noted architects with buildings in Panoramic Hill, Oakland/Berkeley, California . He was one of the architects who designed buildings for Mills College .[2] He designed Hillside Elementary School (1928), a building listed on the National Register. Converted to a residence, it is on the List of largest houses in the United States .
Walter Ratcliff retired in 1955.[6] His son, Robert W. Ratcliff,[6] and later his grandson also became architects and maintained the firm he founded.[1]
List of buildings
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National Register of Historic Places
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The buildings he designed that are listed on the National Register include:[7]
Anna Head School for Girls , 2538 Channing Way, Berkeley, California
Berkeley Day Nursery (1927), 2031 6th Street, Berkeley, California[8]
Chamber of Commerce Building, 2140–2144 Shattuck Avenue & 2071–2089 Center Street, Berkeley, California
Hillside School (1928), 1581 Leroy Avenue, Berkeley, California
Charles W. Merrill House (1938), 407 Camino Sobrante, Orinda, California
Other buildings
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The Holbrook Building at Pacific School of Religion
Several homes in the Piedmont , California–area
Mason-McDuffie Building at 2102 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California[9]
Wells Fargo Bank, 2959 College Ave, Berkeley, California at College Avenue and Ashby Avenue
John Jolly Cairns House (1910), 2729 Elmwood Avenue, Berkeley, California[10] [11]
Elks Club (1913; more recently Scandinavian Designs), 2018 Allston Way, Berkeley, California[1]
Channing Apartments (1913), 2409 College Avenue, Berkeley, California[8]
Malcolm X Elementary School (1920; formerly Lincoln School), 1731 Prince St, Berkeley, California[1]
Armstrong College (1923), 2210 Harold Way, Berkeley, California;[9] later known as Dharma College
Chamber of Commerce building (1925) (later Wells Fargo), 12-stories, Berkeley's first and only skyscraper until 1970[12]
Westminster House (1926), 2700 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, California[8]
Church Divinity School of the Pacific (1929), All Saints Chapel, Gibbs Hall, 2449 Ridge Road, Berkeley, California[8]
Brick gas station (c. 1930s), 1952 Oxford Street, Berkeley, California, a city-designated landmark, scheduled for demolition 2021[13]
Berkeley Baptist Divinity School , the chapel (1949) and academic buildings (1963), 2606 Dwight Way, Berkeley, California[8]
Pacific School of Religion buildings including Holbrook Hall at 1708 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, California[1] [8]
Northeastern University's Mills Campus , formerly Mills College buildings, including Ethel Moore Hall (c.1926) Oakland, California [1] [8]
References
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^ Ormsby Donogh Real Estate Files, Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association .
^ Berkeley Building Permit #483, March 8, 1910.
^ Bruce, Anthony. Walter H. Ratcliff, Jr., Architect: His Berkeley Work . Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association , 2006, p.8.
^ a b Pimsleur, J. L. (1998-05-14). "Robert Ratcliff" . SFGATE . Retrieved 2022-03-01 .
^ National Register database
^ a b c d e f g Cerny, Susan Dinkelspiel (2007). An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area . Gibbs Smith. ISBN 978-1-58685-432-4 .
^ a b "Berkeley's Heritage: A Massive 'Period' Building" . Newspapers.com . The Berkeley Gazette. April 7, 1978. p. 3 . Retrieved 2022-03-01 .
^ Keeling, Brock (2019-08-23). "Walter H. Ratcliff Jr.'s 'Cairns House' in Berkeley hits the market for $3.195M" . Curbed SF . Retrieved 2022-03-01 .
^ Graff, Amy (2019-08-24). "This Berkeley house cost $10,000 to build. 109 years later, it's selling for $3.2 million" . SFGATE . Retrieved 2022-03-01 .
^ "Berkeley Landmarks :: The Studio Building" . berkeleyheritage.com .
^ Rauch, Kate Darby (November 21, 2021). "Berkeley's only landmarked gas station gets a sorrowful goodbye" . Berkeleyside . Retrieved November 23, 2021 .
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