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Welcome to the Walter Burley Griffin Society of America web site. Our mission is to preserve the legacy of architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin and the Prairie School of Architecture.

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TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING
OCTOBER 3 & 4, 2025
MASON CITY, IOWA

We are pleased to announce that the 24th Annual Meeting of the Walter Burley Griffin Society of America will be held in Mason City, Iowa, on 3-4 October 2025 (Friday and Saturday). The meeting is being organized by Nick and Kent Mutchler and Peggy Bang and will include visits to the houses of Rock Crest/Rock Glen and a host of additional local sites. This will be the Society’s third visit to this incredible enclave of early twentieth-century modern American architecture, following meetings held in June 2003 and May 2014. The entire Historic Park Inn Hotel (the Wright hotel) has been reserved for the Griffin Society for 2, 3, & 4 October and rooms are now available as first come first served. More information will be forthcoming in the next newsletter and online.

Check back for additional details on the meeting.

MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS

Once again, please renew your Griffin Society membership for 2024. Again, we have not raised our basic dues of $25 over the life of the organization and yet have been able to host the meetings and newsletters as well as sponsor publications and preservation projects. But we do need our members to renew to continue making these things possible. Thanks so very much. The membership renewal form can be found here (Membership Form). Please return the form with your payment to the Society.

GRIFFIN HOUSE FOR SALE

A Griffin house in the Rock Crest, Rock Glen area of Mason City, Iowa is for sale. Details about the house can be found HERE.

The Walter Burley Griffin Society of America
is proud to announce...

GRIFFIN SOCIETY POSTERS

The Griffin Society is pleased to make its set of conference posters available for purchase. For the past six years the Society has commissioned commemorative posters for its annual meetings from the Brooklyn Studio of Peter Kruty and Sayre Gaydos. Hand printed with fine inks on handmade papers in limited editions, they are artworks in themselves and make excellent additions to the collections of architecture aficionados, Griffin followers, or anyone looking for an affordable and unique gift. The Society is offering these elegant prints for the modest price of $35 apiece including postage and handling (within the United States).

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Peter Kruty is a master printer and, together with his partner Sayre Gaydos, is the proprietor of Peter Kruty Editions, a fine art and commercial letterpress studio located in a charming two-story former horse stable in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Peter trained under Richard-Gabriel Rummonds at The University of Alabama and has graduate degrees in both letterpress and printmaking. The studio, now in its twenty-fourth year, collaborates with numerous contemporary artists and designers, including Lesley Dill, Louise Lawler, Eliza Kentridge, and Walton Ford. Its productions are widely collected both privately and by museums and libraries. Peter has taught book arts extensively in the United States and currently instructs letterpress at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Peter and Sayre also teach a letterpress workshop at the renowned Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione in Cornuda, Italy.

As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Peter studied architectural history under Paul Sprague, developing an early interest in the Prairie School and Walter Burley Griffin. He attends the meetings of the Griffin Society as his schedule permits and has been pleased to offer his services in producing the conference posters for the last six meetings. Peter and Sayre have created the posters at little more than cost and have donated all proceeds to the Griffin Society.

Peter Kruty
365 40th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11232
peterkrutyeditions@peterkrutyeditions.com

See the Publications page for pricing and ordering information.

 
 
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