#18809 - Contender for second place
- Resource IDLocation
- 18809Journals
- Title/subtitle
- Contender for second place
- Author/Creator
- Benson, Alan F
- Format
- Journal article
- Identifier
- Institution of Engineers Australia; Griffin, Walter B.; Scrivener, Charles
- Publisher
- Canberra & District Historical Society
- Physical description
- 6p., illus., end notes
- Summary
- Discusses the role of Henry Caswell, senior engineer and surveyor, Water and Sewerage Branch, NSW Public Works Department. In 1909 Caswell prepared a report on the drainage of two alternate sites for the capital at Canberra. He entered the 1911 Federal capital design competition in partnership with Charles Coulter and W. Scott-Griffiths. The article discusses the merits and shortcomings of the Caswell plan versus the winning design of Walter Griffin.
- Notes
- The author is descended from the Caswell family. Caswell Drive is named after Henry Caswell.
