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Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony

WTTW News | October 28, 2009, 7:00 pm

Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony were the dynamic duo of design. We meet the married couple that took the ideas of the Prairie School to the other side of the world.

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