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“The Cooley House became Griffin’s last structure to be built in the United States, and it is among the last surviving examples of Prairie School residential architecture in the South.”

• 1908 - House Designed

  Internationally acclaimed architect Walter Burley Griffin designs The Cooley House for entrepreneur Gilbert Brian ‘Captain’ Cooley of Monroe, Louisiana.

  While designed, Cooley was not able to begin construction at that time. Before he was able to start, Griffin and his wife Marion Mahony won an international competition to design a new capital city for Australia. Griffin and Mahony went to Australia in 1912, and his career flourished.

  His success in Australia made it difficult to maintain an office in Chicago, and he closed his American office in 1917

• 1925 - Broke Ground

  Construction begins on The Cooley House. And though having closed his American office in 1917, Griffin came back to the United States in 1925 and included a trip to