In 1969 she wrote, "On Mount Emu Creek", which is a description of ‘the closed Western District of a past era’. In 1972, she wrote "The Builders of Melbourne: The Cockrams and Their Contemporaries" regarding historical architecture events in Melbourne. After which, she wrote five articles for the "Australian Dictionary of Biography". In 1987, she wrote "Yancannia Creek", which was described as her greatest achievement. Designed in 1940 Architect: Frederick Romberg and Mary Turner Shaw Located: 2 Horsburgh Grove, Armadale  In the first decades of the 20th century, and gaining momentum after World War I, apartment buildings started to appear in Melbourne. The residents’ ways of life, personal and social, were negatively impacted by the war in Australia, and it worsened into a housing shortage as the population increased. Low number of houses was built during war, and terrace houses were not readily accepted anymore. As such, the building of residential apartments was considered to be one possible way to resolve the problem of shortage. There was a rapid growth in the apartment construction activities in the late 1920s. And driven by that growth, South Yarra and Toorak started to give in to what Wilde (1999:40) describes as "the combined pressures of probate, depression and profit". However, this led to unhappiness among the residents who spoke out against flats, stressing that flats destroyed the personality of South Yarra and Toorak. Eventually, a by-law was passed by Prahran Council in 1933, putting in increased regulations over various aspects of flat building, such as building height and construction standards. Additionally, several new housing estates even came out with stipulations banning the building of apartments. In the late 1930s and early 1940s the influence of European modernism began to be apparent in the design of apartment buildings in Melbourne. Glenunga flats was one of the first, designed by Frederick Romberg together with his partner Mary Turner Shaw in 1939, which "broke new ground in the manner flat development was arranged" (Lewis and Foster, 1992: 205). Glenunga flats, which is located at 2 Horsburgh Grove, Armadale, was owned by Carl and Constance Stratman. This building was completed in 1940 and was designed by architects Frederick Romberg and Mary Turner Shaw. Before war regulation that stopped all of the buildings, both architects—Frederick Romberg and Mary Turner Shaw performed the last private commission for Glenunga.