Walter Ratcliff

Walter Harris Ratcliff Jr. (18811978) was an English-born American architect, active in Berkeley, California. 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. and came to the United States in 1894. 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 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. and later his grandson also became architects and maintained the firm he founded.

Anna Head School for Girls, 2538 Channing Way, Berkeley, California Berkeley Day Nursery (1927), 2031 6th Street, Berkeley, California 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

Several homes in the Piedmont, California–area Mason-McDuffie Building at 2102 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California Wells Fargo Bank, 2959 College Ave, Berkeley, California at College Avenue and Ashby Avenue John Jolly Cairns House (1910), 2729 Elmwood Avenue, Berkeley, California Elks Club (1913; more recently Scandinavian Designs), 2018 Allston Way, Berkeley, California Westminster House (1926), 2700 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, California Berkeley Baptist Divinity School, the chapel (1949) and academic buildings (1963), 2606 Dwight Way, Berkeley, California Pacific School of Religion buildings including Holbrook Hall at 1708 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, California Northeastern University's Mills Campus, formerly Mills College buildings, including Ethel Moore Hall (c.1926) Oakland, California