Primary
William Gray Purcell Papers, 1880–1965
Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota Library, Minnesota
http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/naa003.xml
Description: Papers created by Purcell’s firm.
Secondary
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Brooks, Alien H. The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright and his Midwest Contemporaries. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972.
Camden Community Analysis and Action Recommendations. N.p.: City Planning Commission Report, 1965.
Conforti, Michael, ed. Minnesota 1900: Art and Life on the Upper Mississippi 1980–1915. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press in association with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1994.
"Fournier's Architectural Vocabulary." Northwest Architect 10, no. 1 (1946).
Gamer, John S., ed. The Midwest in American Architecture. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
Gebhard, David. "William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie and the Early Progressive Movement in American Architecture from 1900–1920." PhD diss., University of Minnesota, 1957.
——— . "Purcell and Elmslie Architects." Prairie School Review 2, no. 1 (1965).
Kennedy, Roger. Minnesota Houses: An Architectural and Historical View. Minneapolis: Dillon Press, 1967.
Martin, Judith, and David A. Lanegran. Where We Live: the Residential Districts of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
Prairie School Architecture of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. [St. Paul]: Minnesota Museum of Art, 1982.
"Some Recent Bank Building Operations." Banker's Magazine 108 (May 1924): 847–849.
Valentin Von Hoist, Hermann. Country and Suburban Homes of the Prairie School Period: With 424 Photographs and Floor Plans. New York: Dover Publications, 1982.
Winter, Robert, and Alexander Vertikoff. American Bungalow Style. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.