I was asked to research someone famous that was born in Maywood. The requestor messaged me vs. posting to the group. If you believe someone should be added, please know where they lived in Maywood and post vs. messaging me. I am not the Group researcher and am trying to donate some time but would like to make sure we can identify where the person lived. Please feel free to do some research on your own and update the spreadsheet. If you cant do the research maybe you can help by filling out the Historical Commission forms. Here is the person requested. I dont know how long they lived in Maywood but definitely they had moved to Oak Park and then Elmhurst by 1900. I am unable to locate a 1880 Census. Walter Burley Griffin (November 24, 1876 – February 11, 1937) was an American architect and landscape architect. He is known for designing Canberra, Australias capital city. He has been credited with the development of the L-shaped floor plan, the carport and an innovative use of reinforced concrete. Influenced by the Chicago-based Prairie School, Griffin developed a unique modern style. He worked in partnership with his wife Marion Mahony Griffin. In 28 years they designed over 350 buildings, landscape and urban-design projects as well as designing construction materials, interiors, furniture and other household items. Griffin was born in 1876 in Maywood, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. (Unable to locate the family in 1880 Census, by the 1900 Census the family was living in Elmhurst.). He was the eldest of the four children of George Walter Griffin, an insurance agent, and Estelle Burley Griffin. His family moved to Oak Park and later to Elmhurst. As a boy he had an interest in landscape design and gardening, and his parents allowed him to landscape the yard at their new home in Elmhurst. Griffin went to Oak Park High School. He considered studying landscape design but was advised by the landscape gardener O. C. Simonds to pursue a more lucrative profession. Griffin chose to study architecture, and, in 1899, completed his bachelors degree in architecture at the University of Illinois. The University of Illinois program was run by Nathan Clifford Ricker, a German-educated architect, who emphasized the technical aspects of architecture. During his studies, he also took courses in horticulture and forestry. After his studies, Griffin moved to Chicago and was employed as a draftsman for two years in the offices of progressive architects Dwight H. Perkins, Robert C. Spencer, Jr., and H. Webster Tomlinson in Steinway Hall. Griffins employers worked in the distinctive Prairie School style. This style is marked by horizontal lines, flat roofs with broad overhanging eaves, solid construction, craftsmanship, and strict discipline in the use of ornament. Louis Sullivan was influential among Prairie School architects and Griffin was an admirer of his work, and of his philosophy of architecture which stressed that design should be free of historical precedent. Other architects of that school include George Grant Elmslie, George Washington Maher, William Gray Purcell, William Drummond and most importantly, Frank Lloyd Wright. In July 1901 Griffin passed the new Illinois architects licensing examination and this permitted him to enter private practice as an architect. He began to work in Frank Lloyd Wrights famous Oak Park, Illinois, studios. Although he was never made a partner, Griffin oversaw the construction on many of Wrights noted houses including the Willits House in 1902 and the Larkin Administration Building built in 1904. From 1905 he also began to supply landscape plans for Wrights buildings. Wright allowed Griffin and his other staff to undertake small commissions of their own. The William Emery house, built in Elmhurst, Illinois, in 1903 was such a commission. While working for Wright, Griffin fell in love with Mr. Wrights sister, Maginel Wright. He proposed marriage to her, but his affections for her were not returned, and she refused. In 1906 he resigned his position at Wrights studio and established his own practice at Steinway Hall. Griffin and Wright had fallen out over events following Mr. Wrights trip to Japan in 1905. While Wright was away for five months, Griffin ran the practice. When Wright returned, he told Griffin that he had overstepped his responsibilities, completing several of Wrights jobs, and sometimes substituting his own building designs. Further, Wright had borrowed money from Griffin to pay for his travels abroad, and then he tried to pay off his debts to Griffin with prints he had gotten in Japan. It became clear to Griffin then that Wright would not make Griffin a partner in his business. Griffins first independent commission was a landscape design for the State Normal School at Charleston, Illinois, now known as the Eastern Illinois University. In the fall of 1906, he received his first residential job from Harry Peters. The Peters House was the first house designed with an L-shaped or open floor plan. The L-shape was an economical design and easily constructed. From 1907, 13 houses in this style were built in the Chicago neighborhood now known as Beverly-Morgan Park. Seven of these houses are on W. 104th Place in Beverly, Chicago. This street is now named Walter Burley Griffin Place, and forms a municipal historical district within the national Ridge Historic District, as it contains the largest collection of small scale Griffin designs. In 1911 Griffin married Marion Lucy Mahony, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in architecture. She was employed first in Wrights office, and then by Hermann V. von Holst, who had taken over Wrights work in America when Wright left for Europe in 1909. Marion Mahony recommended to von Holst that he hire Griffin to develop a landscape plan for the area surrounding the three houses on Milliken Place for which Wright had been hired in Decatur, Illinois. Mahony and Griffin worked closely on the Decatur project immediately before their marriage. After their marriage, Mahony went to work in Griffins practice.[1] A Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony-designed development with several homes, Rock Crest Rock Glen in Mason City, Iowa, is seen as their most dramatic American design development of the decade and remains the largest collection of Prairie Style homes surrounding a natural setting.[2] From 1899 to 1914, Griffin created more than 130 designs in his Chicago office for buildings, urban plans and landscapes; half of these were built in mid-western states of Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin. In 1981, the city of Chicago granted landmark status to the Prairie-style bungalows designed between 1909 and 1914 by Griffin in the 1700 block of West 104th Place (also known as the Griffin Place Historic District), as well as 12 blocks on Longwood Drive and three blocks along Seeley Avenue between 98th and 110th Streets. The relationship between Griffin and Frank Lloyd Wright cooled in the years following Griffins departure from Wrights firm in 1906. With Walter and Marions wedding, Wright started to feel they were against him. After Griffins win in the Canberra design competition, and resultant front page coverage in the New York Times, Wright and Griffin never spoke to each other again. In later years, whenever Griffin was brought up in conversation Wright would downplay his achievements and refer to him as a draftsman. Major works United States G.B. Cooley House,1908 South Grand St., Monroe, Louisiana Alfred W. Hebert House Remodeling, 1902, Evanston, Illinois W.H. Emery House, 1903, Elmhurst, Illinois Adolph Mueller House, 1906 Mary H. Bovee Apartment, 1907 John Gauler House, 1908, Chicago, Illinois William S. Orth House, 1908, Winnetka, Illinois Edmund C. Garrity House, 1909 Ralph Griffin House, 1909, Edwardsville, Illinois Edmund C. Garrity House, 1712 W. 104th Place, Chicago, Illinois, 1909 William B. Sloan House, 1910 Harry N. Tolles House, 10561 S. Longwood Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 1911 Harry G. Van Nostrand House, 1666 W. Griffin PIace, Chicago, Illinois, 1911 Russell L. Blount House I, 1724 W. Griffin Place, Chicago, Illinois, 1911 Joshua Melson House, 1912, Mason City, Iowa Russel L. Blount House II, 1950 W. 102nd Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1912–1913 Jenkinson House, 1727 W. Griffin Place, Chicago, Illinois, 1912–1913 Walter D. Salmon House, 1736 W. Griffin PIace, Chicago, Illinois, 1912–1913 Newland house, 1737 W. Griffin Place, Chicago, Illinois, 1913 Ida E. Williams House, 1632 W. Griffin Place, Chicago, Illinois (based on the Von Nostrand plans, built by Blount), 1913 William R. Hornbaker House, 1710 W. Griffin Place, Chicago, Illinois, (based on the Von Nostrand plans, built by Blount), 1914 James Frederic Clarke House, 1731 W. Griffin Place, Chicago, Illinois, (based on the Von Nostrand plans, built by Blount), 1913 Harry C. Furneaux House, 1741 W. Griffin Place, Chicago, Illinois, (based on the Salmon House plans, built by Blount), 1913 James Blyth House, Mason City, Iowa Stinson Memorial Library, Anna, Illinois Australia Canberra plan, 1914–1920 Leeton town plan, 1914 Griffith town plan, 1914 Eaglemont town plan, 1915 Newman College, University of Melbourne, 1916–1918 Café Australia, Melbourne, 1916 Capitol Theatre, Melbourne 1924 Palais de danse, St Kilda 1925 (destroyed by fire) Leonard House, Elizabeth Street Melbourne 1925 (demolished) Castlecrag, suburb plan, 1925 Castle Cove, suburb plan, 1930 Paris Theatre, Sydney, 1915 (demolished) Pyrmont Incinerator, completed 1936 (demolished) Willoughby Incinerator, 1932 [1] See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Burley_Griffin for more information on his life and career. 1910 United States Federal Census Name: Walter Griffin Age in 1910: 31 Birth Year: abt 1879 Birthplace: Illinois Home in 1910: York, DuPage, Illinois Race: White Gender: Male Relation to Head of House: Son Marital Status: Single Name Age George W Griffin 58 Estelle B Griffin 57 Genevieve Griffin 23 Gertrude Griffin 18 Walter Griffin 31 Laura Rumble 37 Forest Rumble 14 1900 United States Federal Census Name: Walter B Griffin Age: 23 Birth Date: Nov 1876 Birthplace: Illinois Home in 1900: York, Dupage, Illinois Name Age George W Griffin 49 Estelle Griffin 48 Walter B Griffin 23 Ralph Griffin 21 Genevieve Griffin 15 Gertrude Griffin 9 Pauline Rosen 22 Death 1937 11 Feb Age: 60 Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India Griffin House 705 St. Louis St Edwardsville,IL 1909 By: Walter Burley Griffin (Picture Saved)
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