Architact - William Alexander Harvey

William Alexander Harvey was an English architect. He is most notable for his design of Bournville, the model 'garden suburb' built by Cadburys to house their chocolate-making workforce to the south of Birmingham. Harvey born into an artistic family, he studied architecture at the Municipal School of Art in Birmingham, and was appointed by George Cadbury to work on houses in Bournville in 1895 aged just 20.

Style
Influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement, many of Harvey's designs incorporated arty features such as stepped gables, small Venetian windows over canted bays, timber corner porches below dormers with very concave little leaded roofs. Houses at 10-12 Sycamore Road, Bournville, are typical.

Build of Bournville

St Francis' Church (1925)

the parish hall (1913)

the Rest House (1914)

the Bournville Junior School (1902-5)

the adjoining Ruskin Hall (1903)

the Infants' School (1910)

the Friends' Meeting House (1905)

He rebuilt Selly Manor (1912–16)and Minworth Greaves (1929)

In Selly Oak he designed Kingsmead College (1905), Westhill College (1907), and Carey Hall (1912).

From 1914 until at least 1935 his firm, Harvey and Wicks, was based at 5 Bennetts Hill, an important commercial street in central Birmingham. He continued to design public buildings in the village, but also designed houses, estates, municipal buildings and churches elsewhere in Birmingham and further afield.

Reference:
H. Michael, (2009), Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian Architects, Phillada Ballard. ed. Oblong. ISBN 978-0-9556576-2-7. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Alexander_Harvey