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Panorama looking west of Lookout Reserve and 3 of the 4 Griffin houses in The Parapet, Castlecrag

Photographer / artist:

Manfred Souhami

Copyright:

© Renate Watkinson 2006

Source:

Walter Burley Griffin Society Inc.Collection, courtesy Renate Watkinson

Architects:

Walter Burley Griffin

Subject Date:

(L to R) Cheong, Moon and Grant houses built 1922

Image Date:

late 1940s

Type:

b&w photograph

Notes:

Griffin planned that at Castlecrag all electric wires would be undergound. The electricity authority of the time would not permit it, claiming that it would create an expensive precident, even though the company GSDA planned to pay for the undergrounding.