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Selected books

Birrell, James, Walter Burley Griffin. Brisbane, University of Queensland Press, 1964.
Bowmaker, A E, A brief history of Leeton. Rotary Club of Leeton, 1968.

Buch, A R, ‘Charles Alfred Lee (1842–1926)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Vol. 9. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press.

Duncan, J and Gates, M, Walter Burley Griffin: a review. Melbourne, Monash University Gallery, 1988.

Griffin, Dustin, The Writings of Walter Burley Griffin, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2008.

Griffin, Marion Mahony, The Magic of America: Electronic Edition, Art Institute of Chicago, published online only, August 2007, http://www.artic.edu/magicofamerica/

Harrison, Peter, Walter Burley Griffin: landscape architect. Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1995.

Johnson, Donald Leslie, The Architecture of Walter Burley Griffin. Melbourne, Macmillan, 1977.

Kabaila, Peter and the people of Griffith, Griffith Heritage: a thematic history of Griffith based on a community heritage study prepared for Griffith City Council and the NSW Heritage Office. Canberra, Pirion Publishing, 2005

Kell, B M, From Wilderness to Eden: a history of the City of Griffith, its region and its people. Griffith, Council of the City of Griffith, 1988.

Korporaal, Glenda, Making Magic: The Marion Mahony Griffin Story, Oranje Media, Sydney, Australia, August 2015

Kruty, Paul and Sprague, Paul E, Two American Architects in India: Walter B. Griffin and Marion M. Griffin 1935–1937. Urbana, School of Architecture, University of Illinois, 1997.

Kruty, Paul and Sprague, Paul E, Marion Mahony and Millikin Place: creating a Prairie School masterpiece, Walter Burley Griffin Society of America, 2007.

Kruty, Paul, Walter Burley Griffin and the Stinson Memorial Library: Modernism comes to Main Street, Walter Burley Griffin Society of America, 2010.

Kruty, Paul and Strong, Daniel, Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin in Grinnell, Faulconer Gallery – Grinnell College, Iowa, 2011.

Kruty, Paul, McCoy, Robert E., Sprague, Paul E., and Weirick, James, Rock Crest/Rock Glen, Mason City, Iowa: The American Masterworks of Marion M. and Walter B. Griffin, Walter Burley Griffin Society of America, 2014

Leslie, Esther (comp), The Suburb of Castlecrag: a community history. Sydney, Willoughby Municipal Council, 1988.

Mackenzie, Stuart, Wood-Bradley, Ian et al, The Griffin Legacy: Canberra the Nation’s Capital in the 21st Century. Canberra, National Capital Authority, 2004.

Maldre, Mati and Kruty, Paul, Walter Burley Griffin in America. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1996.

McGregor, Alasdair, Grand Obsessions: the life and work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, Lantern – Penguin Group (Australia), 2009.

Nairn, Bede, ‘Arthur Hill Griffith (1861–1946)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 9.

Newland, John R, The Goondah–Burrinjuck Railway. Australian Railway Historical Society, 1994.

Peisch, M L, ‘Marion Mahony Griffin’, in A K Placzek (ed), Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Architects. New York, Free Press, 1982, vol. 2: 248.

Report of the Commissioner for Water Conservation & Irrigation for Year ended 30 June 1914. Government Printer, 1915.

Reid, Paul, Canberra following Griffin: a design history of Australia’s national capital.  Canberra, National Archives of Australia, 2002.

Reps, John W, Canberra 1912: Plans and Planners of the Australian Capital Competition. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1997.

Roberts, Jan (ed), Avalon Landscape & Harmony: Walter Burley Griffin, Alexander Stewart Jolly & Harry Ruskin Rowe. Sydney, Ruskin Rowe Press, 1999.
Saltis, Addi, Castlecrag. Sydney, Arthur and Marea Weller on behalf of Castlecrag Infants’ School Club, circa 1972.

Turnbull, Jeff and Navaretti, Peter Y (eds), The Griffins in Australia and India: the complete works and projects of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin. Melbourne, Miegunyah Press (Melbourne University Press), 1998.

Van Zanten, David, Walter Burley Griffin: selected designs. Illinois, Prairie School Press, 1970.
Vernon, Christopher, A Vision Splendid: How the Griffins imagined Australia’s capital. Canberra, National Archives of Australia, 2002
Walker, Meredith, Kabos, Adrienne and Weirick, James, Building for Nature: Walter Burley Griffin and Castlecrag. Sydney, Walter Burley Griffin Society, 1994.

Watson, Anne (ed), and Kabos, Adrienne, Visionaries in Suburbia: Griffin Houses in the Sydney Landscape. Sydney, Walter Burley Griffin Society Inc., 2015.
http://www.manic.com.au/Visionaries-in-Suburbia-Griffin-Houses-in-the-Sydney-Landscape.html

Watson, Anne (ed), Beyond architecture: Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin in America, Australia and India.  Sydney, Powerhouse Publishing, 1998.

Water Resources Commission, A Story of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Scheme. Water Resources Commission, mid 1990s.

Wood, Debora (ed), Marion Mahony Griffin: drawing the form of nature, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art – Northwestern University Press, Illinois, 2005.

The two books below have essays on Fishwick House only

Rethmeier, Willem, and Reed Burns, Jenna, Private Sydney. Sydney, Scriptum Editions, 2000.

Allenby, Guy, and Bingham Hall, Patrick, Eight great houses. Sydney, Pesaro Publishing, 2002.

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Glass panel, Capitol Theatre. Powerhouse Museum collection: gift of Dorothea Irving, Melbourne

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Kuomintang Club Building, 109 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne. Walter Burley Griffin Society Inc. Collection, courtesy Bob Meyer

Journals etc

Berkon, S F and Kay, J H, ‘Marion Mahony Griffin, Architect’, Feminist Art Journal. Spring 1975: 10–14.

Burns, Karen and Edquist, Harriet (eds), Transition: Discourse on Architecture: 3 essays on the architecture of WBG and MMG. James Weirick, The Griffins and Modernism; Karen Burns, Prophets in the Wilderness; Michael Markham, The Griffin Incinerators.  Melbourne, RMIT Department of Architecture, Autumn 1988: 24.

Griffin, Walter Burley, ‘The City Plan of Griffith’, Irrigation Record. Vol. 3: No.6, 1 June 1915, No.7, 15 June 1915.

Newland, John R, ‘Griffin and the town planning of Leeton and Griffith’. News update, Walter Burley Griffin Society, March 1997.

Pregliasco, Janice, ‘The Life and Work of Marion Mahony Griffin’, Museum Studies.(The Art Institute of Chicago) 21, 2 (1995): 164–181.

Walter Burley Griffin Society, The Griffin Legacy: Castlecrag Heritage (brochure). Sydney, Walter Burley Griffin Society & NSW Heritage Office, 2004.