Nellie McCredie

Nellie (Nell) McCredie (1901—1968) was an Australian architect and potter. One of her works Uanda is listed on the Queensland Heritage Register. Her artworks are held in a number of major Australian galleries.

Biography Nellie McCredie was born in Sydney on 27 May 1901, the daughter of Robert Smail McCredie and his wife Nellie. Her siblings were Robert, Allan, Ina, and George.

McCredie was a member of a leading architectural family with associations with Queensland as well as New South Wales. She was the niece of well-known Sydney architects Arthur Latimer and George McCredie who from 1889 to 1893 opened a Brisbane office, as McCredie Brothers and Chambers.

Nell McCredie graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Sydney in 1923, one of Australia's earliest architectural graduates. After graduating, she worked briefly for Dorman, Long and Company, contractors for the Sydney Harbour Bridge. In July 1925, she worked for Lawrence and Lourdain Architects in Cairns for four months, then came south to Brisbane where she was employed from November 1925 to early 1929 as a Draftswoman in the Workers' Dwellings Branch (WDB) of the State Advances Corporation. Due to the discovery of Nell's archive in 2013, it is now possible to identify the houses she designed while working for the WDB. She designed six known houses while working in this department, located in Brisbane inner city suburbs, Montville, and Cairns.