This document was originally prepared for the Geneva Historic Preservation Commission by Douglas Kaarre, City Planner and staff person to the Commission. Additional assistance was received from the following people and organizations:

Darlene Larson
Friends of Fabyan

Karin Dorring
Riverbank Acoustical Laboratories

Liz Safanda and Amy Hiler
Preservation Partners of the Fox Valley

Geneva Public Library

David Newton, "The Fabyans’ Fabulous Geneva Retreat," Historic Illinois, Vol. 10, No. 4, (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 1987)

John W. Kopec, The Sabines at Riverbank: Their Role in the Science of Architectural Acoustics, (Woodbury, NY: Acoustical Society of America, 1997)

Ronald Clark, The Man Who Broke Purple, (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1977)

Fred W. Kranz, "Early History of Riverbank Acoustical Laboratories," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 49, No. 2, Part 1, (February, 1971)

David Kahn, The Code-Breakers: The Story of Secret Writing, (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1968)

James R. Chiles, "Breaking Codes was this Couple’s Lifetime Career," Smithsonian, (June, 1987)

Austin C. Lescarboura, "A Small Private Laboratory," Scientific American, (September, 1923).

Riverbank Acoustical Laboratories brochure.

Laura Hiebert and Darlene Larson, "The Fabyan Legacy," Geneva, Illinois: A History of Its Times and Places, (Geneva: Geneva Public Library, 1977)

James Bamford, The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America’s Most Secret Intelligence Organization, (New York: Penguin Books, 1983)

"Fabyan is Building a Bacon-Shakespeare School", Geneva Republican, February 7, 1917.