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Griffin, Walter Burley (1876 - 1937)

Portrait of Walter Burley Griffin  (1876 - 1937)

by unknown photographer, courtesy of National Library of Australia.
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GRIFFIN, WALTER BURLEY (1876-1937), architect, landscape architect and designer of Canberra, was born on 24 November 1876 at Maywood, near Chicago, United States of America, eldest of four children... read on

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