Walter Ratcliff

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] He designed Hillside Elementary School (1928), a building listed on the National Register.

[6] His son, Robert W. Ratcliff,[6] and later his grandson also became architects and maintained the firm he founded.