Walter Burley Griffn American Architect and Landscape Architect 1876-1937

Gauler Houses c1908
Edgewater , Chicago IL.

These two homes were designed by Walter Burley Griffin. Using stucco. In the Prairie Style on a narrow lot.

These houses are small.
Building vertically instead of the horizontal
which Prairie Style is known for. They "mirror' each other. They are twin homes built identically alike.

A closer view of the north home.

The south home at a not so good of an angle.

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It is a beautiful day today so I took a walk west of where I live to Magnolia St. where these houses are located. (These Homes are private residences and are just south of Thorndale on Magnolia steet in Edgewater.

This is where the wealthy and the middle class lived accessing LakeShore Drv. And The now called ELevated trains. To downtown Chicago.

This neighborhood is so rich in Praire Style, Craftsman Style and American Four Square Style architecture. (houses and apartment buildings) All done in the Prairie School Style.

A view of the hidden entrance so typical of Frank Lloyd Wright's homes.

North home entrance.


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And it's national Landmark Plaque.

Walter Burley Griffin was born in Maywood Illinois in 1876 he received his degree in architecture in 1899 and immidialy went to work at StieinWay Hall in Chicago where he met Frank Lloyd Wright. he soon became employed at Frank Lloyd Wright's Oak park studio where he met Marion Mohoney they were married in 1911.

In 1912 when he won a competition to design the new capital city of Canberry Australia.

It was Marion's perspective renderings of her husbonds concepts that made the final desicion on Walter Griffin winnig the competition.

Marion Mohoney (1861 1961)was born in Chicago Illinois and later moved to Wennitka because of the Chicago Fire.

She enrollled at the School of Architecture at the Massachusett Insitute Of Technology. Marion Mohoney was one of eight women in the freshman class.

She went on to become the second woman to graduate with a degree at MIT. And became the first licsenced architect in Illinois

Marion returned to Chicago and worked at her cousin's (Dwight Heald Perkins) firm at Steinway hall, where they shared office space with the Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prarie School Of Architecture in the attic of Stienway Hall. She helped complete drawings for the Steinway Piano Company account.

In 1912 when Walter Burley Griffin won a competition to design the new capital city of Canberry Australia. He and Marion left to over see the design and consruction of the capital city along with many other commisions he had already received

After being in Austrailia for 21 years Walter and Marion moved on to India where Walter had many accounts. In less then a year she over saw over 100 Prairie influenced buldings.

Walter died in 1937 and Marion completed the projects and returned to Chicago and had some misfortunes and spent the rest of her life writing her unpublished memoirs.

She lived the rest of her life in Edgewater Chicago, IL. on the northside and is befittingly buried near by in Graceland cemetary with Burnham, Louis Sullivan any many other prominent Chicago architects and people of her time.

The Griffins designed more than 350 buildings,landscape and Urban Design Projects.

Here is a pic of Walter Burley Griffin and wife Marion Mohoney, who also worked as lead draftsman and was a close friend of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Marion Mohoney Griffin was famous for her presentation renderings for both her husbond Walter Burley Griffin and the many works of FLW.

Frank Lloyd Wright and Marion Mohoney renderings are so alike that a topic on rendering monograms would have to be started. Let alone FLW compliance with Marion Mohony demand on receiving acknowlegement of her renderigs by alowing her monograms.

This is stuff I studied along time ago and have forgotten most. I collect architectural renderings which is a growing market.

I'll see if I can either remember or find the details of Marion Mohoney pre marraiage and marriaged monograms and post them.



Dated c1930

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