Bibliodyssey, the beautiful blog of rare finds online has a post about Walter Burley Griffin who i swear built an art deco incinerator on Kedzie near 45th st.. gonna go look...
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/03/walter-burley-griffin.html
Walter Burley Griffin (1876-1937) was a Chicago architect with a background in landscape design. He is closely associated with the Prairie School, a uniquely American style of architecture that favoured horizontal lines (reflecting prairies) and whose most famous practitioner was Frank Lloyd Wright.
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check out his wife Marion Mahoney Griffin here:
http://www.artic.edu/magicofamerica/
her memoir was recently published digitally by the Art Institute of Chicago.
I forget exactly where in the manuscript but there are photographs of art deco incinerators built in Lucknow, India.
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