Marion Mahony Griffin

Dates of Birth and Death

Birthplace

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1894

Years of practice

Affiliations/Firms

• Office of Dwight Heald Perkins, 64 E. Van Buren Street (Steinway Hall), Chicago, 1894–95
• Office of Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago, 1895–98
• Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, Oak Park, Ill., 1898–1908 (intermittently)
• Principal Designer, Office of Hermann Valentine von Holst, Chicago, 1909–12
• Office of Walter Burley Griffin, Chicago, IL (USA), 1911–13 (office closed 1917)
• Office of Walter Burley Griffin, Melbourne, Australia, 1915–25
• Office of Walter Burley Griffin and Eric Nicholls, Sydney, Australia, 1925–c.1929 (retired from this office)
• Office of Walter Burley Griffin, Lucknow, India (1936–37)

Professional organizations

• Licensed Architect, State of Illinois (January 1898)
• Chicago Arts and Crafts Society (founding member)
• Chicago Architectural Club
• Illinois Chapter of AIA

Major projects

• All Souls Unitarian Church; Evanston, Ill., 1903 (demolished 1960)
• Remodel of Gerald and Hattie Mahony House, Elkhart, Ind., 1907 (demolished, window in collection of the Chicago Art Institute)
• David Amberg House, Grand Rapids, Mich., 1909 (in association with Hermann V. von Holst)
• E. P. Irving House, Millikin Place, Decatur, Ill., 1909 (in association with Hermann V. von Holst)
• Adolph Mueller House, Millikin Place, Decatur, Ill., 1909 (in association with Hermann V. von Holst)
• Robert Mueller House, Millikin Place, Decatur, Ill., 1909–11 (in association with Hermann V. von Holst)
• C. H. Wills House, Detroit, Mich., 1912 (unbuilt project in association with Hermann V. von Holst)
• Fair Lane House for Henry Ford, Detroit, 1912 (unbuilt project in association with Hermann V. von Holst)
• Plan for the international competition for the Australian Federal Capital at Canberra, Australia; 1912–13 (delineator and project manager in association with Walter Burley Griffin)
• Fern Room, Cafe Australia, Melbourne, Australia, 1916 (in association with Walter Burley Griffin)
• Capitol Theatre, Swanston Street, Melbourne, 1924 (in association with Walter Burley Griffin)
• Ellen Mower House, 12 The Rampart, Castlecrag, Sydney, Australia, 1926 (in association with Walter Burley Griffin)
• Creswick House, Castlecrag, Sydney, 1926 (in association with Walter Burley Griffin)
• Pioneer Press Building; Lucknow, India, 1936 (in association with Walter Burley Griffin)

Awards, honors and press

• Winning design for the Australian Federal Capital at Canberra, Federal Design Competition, 1912 (with partner/husband Walter Burley Griffin)

Location of architect’s archive