Ellison Harvie

(Edythe) Ellison Harvie (18 May 1902 – 27 September 1984) was an Australian architect and an advocate for the professional development of women.

After having attended Warwick, a girls' school in East Malvern, she sought to gain employment as an articled assistant at a Melbourne practice.

[8] However, as she was unsuccessful, she enrolled at Swinburne Technical College in 1920 and continued her architectural training there for three years.

[8] In 1921, she was invited by her lecturer Arthur Stephenson to join his newly established firm and serve her articles there.

Harvie won both the University of Melbourne's Atelier award and the President's Prize for best student work in 1927.

The same year that she registered, Stephenson & Meldrum appointed her architect in charge of the Jessie McPherson Wing of the Queen Victoria Hospital in Lonsdale Street, Melbourne.

As well as qualifying as an accountant, she developed a new building contract that could adjust to the economic instability of the time.