Henry Eli White

Henry Eli White
Henry Eli White, c. 1916
Born21 August 1876
Dunedin, New Zealand
Died3 March 1952 (aged 75)
Sydney, New South Wales
NationalityNew Zealand
OccupationArchitect

Henry Eli White (21 August 1876 – 3 March 1952), also known as Harry White, was a New Zealand-born architect best known for the many theatres and cinemas he designed in New Zealand and Australia in the 1910s and 1920s. Many of the major surviving historic venues in the two countries are White designs, including the St. James Theatre, Wellington, St. James Theatre, Auckland, the Capitol Theatre and State Theatre in Sydney, and the Palais Theatre and the interiors of the Princess Theatre and Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne. He also designed the City Hall and the attached Civic Theatre in Newcastle, New South Wales.