Walter Burley Griffin

Walter Burley Griffin, born in 1876 in Maywood near Chicago, won in 1910 an international competition to design the capital of Australia, much as another non-Australian, the Danish architect  Joern Utzon, won the competition to design that Sydney icon, the Sydney Opera House.
As Australia was preparing for its bicentenary celebrations in 1988 a journalist, Graeme D Westlake visited Lucknow in search of Griffin's grave. At the time the Christ Church pastor was a Mr Suraj Masih, who gave Westlake a grave and plot number of the Nishatganj Cemetery. I (George Shepherd) came into the picture as the journalist visited the next best place, The Pioneer, which was housed in the building designed and built by Walter Griffin.
We found the number was to a 'kachcha' grave. I found it hard to believe that an American, of his standing, could, in 1937, have been buried in an unmarked grave. Mr Westlake was as incredulous but accepted the fact. Later an Australian High Commission official visited and then a senator Mr Teague, from South Australia made the trip carrying funds for a memorial that marks the spot today.
(Sunday April 21, 2013
I think Chicago has been 
replaced. Thought it's not visible in the top pic which is the latest. George Shepherd)