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GRIFFIN SOCIETY 10TH ANNUAL MEETING JUNE 20, 2009 IN KENILWORTH, ILLINOIS Save the date! The tenth annual meeting of the Walter Burley Griffin Society of America will be held on Saturday, 20 June, in Chicago’s north-shore suburb of Kenilworth. The morning session of lectures and announcements will be held from 9:00am to 12:00 noon in the Kenilworth Assembly Hall, designed and built in 1906 by George W. Maher and located at 410 Kenilworth Avenue at Richmond Road. Speakers include Kathy Cummings, discussing Maher’s planning in Kenilworth, Sharon Darling on Teco pottery, and Paul Kruty’s examination of Trier Center and the Tempel subdivision, located in nearby Winnetka. After lunch, houses by Griffin, Maher, and John Van Bergen in Kenilworth and Winnetka will be open for tour. The cost for the morning events, the annual meeting and lectures, is free for Griffin Sociey members and Pleasant Home Association members. The cost for Griffin Society membership is $25.00. For the afternoon tours, there is an additional per person cost of $10.00 for members. On site registration begins at 8:30am. Please register for the Annual Meeting by June 6, by emailing us at: info@WBGriffinSociety.org or RSVPing with Peter Griffin at: 314-644-4546.

NEW BOOK NOW AVAILABLE!
Marion Mahony and Millikin Place
by Paul Kruty and Paul E. Sprague

The Walter Burley Griffin Society Of America has just released a new book:
Marion Mahony and Millikin Place: Creating a Prairie School Masterpiece, written by Paul Kruty and Paul E. Sprague. Price: $29.95

The book tells the tale of the creation of a private street in central Illinois. It does so in a variety of ways: by examining the history of the site, the record of the design and construction, and the lives of the owners and architects who made it possible. This narrative - the development of a district on the west side of Decatur and its ramifications for the architectural world well beyond its borders - brings together three of the greatest modern architects practicing in early 20th century Chicago: Frank Lloyd Wright, Marion Lucy Mahony, and Walter Burley Griffin. Nearly every page contains factual material never before published, while much of the rest is to be found only in a wide range of obscure sources. Here for the first time a complete account of Millikin Place and its legacy are available in a single volume.

The book, Marion Mahony and Millikin Place, is available directly from the Walter Burley Griffin Society Of America. You can order your copies by contacting Peter Griffin (wbgsociety@charter.net).

OR... You can also pay for the book using PayPal. Members of the Society receive a 20% discount on the book. The member price is $23.95, plus $6.00 for shipping and handling, for a total of $29.95. Simply click on the button below to purchase the book.

If you are not a member of the Walter Burley Griffin Society Of America, you can purchase the book for $35.95 ($29.95 plus $6.00 for shipping and handling) by clicking on the button below.