Henry Budden

Henry "Harry" Ebenezer Budden CBE (11 August 1871 – 25 December 1944) was a Sulman Award winning Australian architect active in the first 40 years of the 20th century.

From 1887 Arthur Budden had owned two hectares (four acres) of land on Woolwich Road and from 1899 he developed housing and a street known as Blake Avenue that gave access to Prince Edward Parade.

[5] At first Henry Budden lived in Hunters Hill with his parents at Moocooboolah, 65 Alexandra Street,[6] until he married the girl next door, Ella Thomas, in 1902.

[7] This house, with Kurrowah at 74 Alexandra Street,[8] distinctly shows the emerging asymmetrical style of Budden as his angles take advantage of the northerly sun and river aspect of this suburb.

Budden's most distinctive design in Hunters Hill is Mornington at 16 Vernon Street,[9] completed in the Federation Bungalow style at its most creative.

This was an honorary appointment and Budden sailed for Egypt in July 1915 with full authority to reorganise and administer the distribution of comforts to Australian troops on active service.

Throughout the 45 years that Budden worked as an architect in New South Wales, two institutions had a strong influence on his commissions and partnerships - his church and his school.

Harry Kent, Henry Budden and Carlyle Greenwell, and their extended families, were all active Congregationalists at a time when that Christian denomination was very influential in the upper middle classes of Sydney society and business.

[15]: 347  He employed and worked with many Old Newingtonians during his professional career including Carlyle Greenwell, William Hardy Wilson, Eric Heath and his final partner Alan Nangle.