Harley Ellis Devereaux is an architecture and engineering firm based in Southfield, Michigan

Southfield, Michigan

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which 0.04% is water. The main branch of the River Rouge runs through Southfield. The city is bounded to the south by Eight Mile Road, its western border is Inkster Road, and to the east it is bounded by Greenfield Road...

 with offices in Southfield, Michigan, Chicago, Illinois

Chicago

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, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

, San Diego

San Diego, California

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 and Riverside

Riverside, California

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, California

California

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. The firm was founded in 1908 by architects Alvin E. Harley and Norman S. Atcheson.

Activities

As of 2008, Harley Ellis Devereaux is one of the 150 largest design firms in the United States, employing more than 500 professionals including programmers; architects; civil, mechanical, electrical, and structural engineers; landscape architects; interior designers; graphics, signage, and equipment designers; and construction specialists. The firm specializes in multiple practices including health care, flfe enhancement, science and research, corporate and commercial, mixed use and residential, K-12 schools, higher education, civic and cultural and industrial and automotive.

Harley Ellis Devereaux buildings

• Horace Rackham
  Horace Rackham
  Horace H. Rackham was one of the original stockholders in the Ford Motor Company and a noted philanthropist.- Early Life and Ford :...
  
   Education Memorial Building, Detroit, 1941.
• City-County Building Coleman A. Young Municipal Center
  Coleman A. Young Municipal Center
  The Coleman A. Young Municipal Center is a class-A office building in downtown Detroit, near Hart Plaza, One Detroit Center and the Renaissance Center. Originally called the City-County Building, it was renamed for former Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young, shortly after his death in 1997...
  
  , Detroit, 1950
• U.S. State Department Building, Washington, D.C., 1960
• Union Bank Office Tower, San Jose, California, 1976
• University of Michigan Chemical Sciences Building, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1988
• General Motors Truck Product Center, Pontiac, Michigan, 1996
• VA Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1998
• Wentworth Commons, Chicago, 2005
• Millennium Park
  Millennium Park
  Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, USA and originally intended to celebrate the millennium. It is a prominent civic center near the city's Lake Michigan shoreline that covers a section of northwestern Grant Park. The area was previously...
  
   Program Management, Chicago, 2006
• Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center, Los Angeles, 2007

Office locations

• Southfield, Michigan
  Southfield, Michigan
  According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which 0.04% is water. The main branch of the River Rouge runs through Southfield. The city is bounded to the south by Eight Mile Road, its western border is Inkster Road, and to the east it is bounded by Greenfield Road...
  
  
• Chicago
  Chicago
  Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
  
  , Illinois
  Illinois
  Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
  
  
• Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
  
  
• San Diego, California
  San Diego, California
  San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...
  
  
• Berkeley, California
  Berkeley, California
  Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...
  
  

History of firm names

Since its inception in 1908, the firm has existed as:

• Harley and Atcheson (1908–1912)
• Alvin E. Harley, Architect (1912–1932)
• Harley and Ellington (1933–1942)
• Harley, Ellington and Day (1943–1960)
• Harley, Ellington, Cowin and Stirton (1961–1968)
• Harley Ellington Associates (1969–1972)
• Harley Ellington Pierce Yee Associates (1973–1994)
• Harley Ellington Design (1995–1999)
• HarleyEllis (2000–2005)
• Harley Ellis Devereaux (2006–Present)

Awards

• Chicago’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies To Work For, 2005, 2006, 2007
• ZweigWhite, Hot Firm List, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
• Top Ten Green Projects, AIA COTE, Lake View Terrace Library, 2004
• Metropolitan Detroit 101 Best and Brightest Companies To Work For, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
• AIA Michigan Firm of the Year, 2000

External links

• Harley Ellis Devereaux Corporate Site
• Harley Ellis Devereaux Centennial Site
• Duggan, Daniel. (2008, February 18). "http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20080219/SUB/594011346", Crain's Detroit Business, February 18, 2008.