Eleanor Cullis-Hill

Cullis–Hill was born Eleanor Beresford Grant in 1913 in Warrawee, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney. Her father was Joseph Beresford Grant, a businessman in real estate. She attended Frensham School in Mittagong and went on to study architecture at the University of Sydney, Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning. She graduated in 1938. ==Career==

Cullis–Hill began working as a professional architect after the Second World War. In a contract position with the New South Wales Housing Commission, she designed houses as part of Sydney's postwar reconstruction boom. In total, she designed more than 30 houses and around 50 residential alterations. She also designed church and school buildings: these included additions to Gib Gate School in Mittagong (1954–1973) and St James' Anglican Church in Turramurra (1957–1975) as well as the original plans for Wahroonga Nursery School (1954–1955) and the Turramurra Nursery School (1961). Her design for the Wahroonga Nursery School was shortlisted for the Australian Institute of Architects' Sulman Award in 1956. Cullis-Hill retired in 1981 and died in 2001. ==Legacy==

Cullis–Hill is recognised by the Australian Institute of Architects annual national award the Eleanor Cullis-Hill Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions). ==Family==

In 1938 she married Grandison Cullis-Hill, a fellow architecture student at the University of Sydney who partnered with Rupert Minnert in architectural practice in Crows Nest. Her two eldest daughters, Caroline Martin and Josephine Roberts, also became architects. ==References==