WOOLLEY, Henry Howell

Architect

ACIA; ISAA (1927).

Worked in Cape Town from about 1927, Woolley was placed third in a competition held in 1927 for 'Houses for poorer classes', illustrated in the Architect, Builder & Engineer (Jan 1928). RD MARTIENSSEN, in his review of the first volume of Cumming-George's Architecture in South Africa (1933), commented favourably on Woolley's design of a house for Lady Smith, Sea Point. The review appeared in the South African Architectural Record (April 1934:108). By 1959 he is recorded as a salaried member of the Natal Institute in the employ of the Architectural Division of the City Engineer's Department of the City of Durban.

Woolley was buried in the main cemetery, Kokstad.

(AB&E Jan 1928:8, 11; Cumming-George 1933; ISAA mem list; Rennie 1983; SAAR Apr 1934:108; SAB Jul 1927:41; SAB Nov 1927:51)

All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.

List of projects

With photographs
With notes

Block of flats: 1927. Muizenberg, Western Cape - Architect

House CR Malherbe: 1927. Pinelands, Western Cape - Architect

House GE Brandreth: 1930. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

House Lady Smith: 1927. Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Books citing WOOLLEY

ISAA. 1959. The Yearbook of the Institute of South African Architects and Chapter of SA Quantity Surveyors 1958-1959 : Die Jaarboek van die Instituut van Suid-Afrikaanse Argitekte en Tak van Suid-Afrikaanse Bourekenaars 1958-1959. Johannesburg: ISAA. pp 101, 224

ISAA. 1927. Register of Members the Institute of South African Architects. Johannesburg: ISAA (Unpublished Record). pp W22