Greene and Greene, Architects (Partnership)

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Harry Monroe Banfield, Charles Sumner Greene, Henry Mather Greene

Active 1893-1923

Firm Notes

The Greene and Greene practice centered in Pasadena, CA; in 1902, the practice was located at 65 East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena. (See Pasadena, California, City Directory, 1902, p. 99.)

The partnership dissolved, with each brother doing his own work thereafter.

PCAD id: 18

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Buildings and other works

NameDateCityState
Anthony, Earle C., Packard Automobile Showroom, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Anthony, Earle Charles, House #1, Beverly Hills, CABeverly HillsCA
Bandini, Arturo, House, Pasadena, CA 1903PasadenaCA
Bentz, Louise, House, Pasadena, CA1906PasadenaCA
Blacker, E.J., House, Oak Knoll, Pasadena, CA1912PasadenaCA
Blacker, Robert Rue and Nellie, House, Oak Knoll, Pasadena, CA1907-1908PasadenaCA
Bowen House, Altadena, CA1905AltadenaCA
Cole, John and Mary E., House, Pasadena, CAPasadenaCA
Crow, Dr. S.S., House, Oak Knoll, Pasadena, CA1909-1910PasadenaCA
Culbertson, Cordelia A., House, Oak Knoll, Pasadena, CA1911-1913PasadenaCA
Culbertson, James A., House, Pasadena, CA1902-1910PasadenaCA
Darling House, Claremont, CAClaremontCA
Fargo, Garvanza, House, Highland Park, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Fleishhacker, Mortimer, House, Pacific Heights, San Francisco, CASan FranciscoCA
Fleishhacker, Mortimer, House, Woodside, CA1911-1912WoodsideCA
Ford, Freeman, House, Pasadena, CA1906-1908PasadenaCA
Gamble, David Berry and Mary Huggins, House, Pasadena, CA1908-1909PasadenaCA
Greene, Charles Sumner, House, Pasadena, CAPasadenaCA
Huston, Joseph K., House, Pasadena, CA1911PasadenaCA
Irwin, Theodore, Jr., House, Pasadena, CA1906-1907PasadenaCA
Kew, Michael, House, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 1912San DiegoCA
Kinney-Kendall Commercial Building, Pasadena, CA1896PasadenaCA
Oaklawn Avenue Waiting Station, South Pasadena, CASouth PasadenaCA
Pitcairn, Robert, Jr., House, Pasadena, CA1906-1907PasadenaCA
Pratt, Charles M., House, Ojai, CAOjaiCA
Robinson, Henry and Laurabelle, House, Pasadena, CA1905-1906
Rowland, Frank, House, Pasadena, CA1903PasadenaCA
Samborn, Samuel, House, Pasadena, CA1903PasadenaCA
Serrurier House, Altadena, CAAltadenaCA
Smith, E.W., House, Pasadena, CA1910PasadenaCA
Spinks, William Ward and Margaret B. S. Clapham, House, Pasadena, CA1907-1909PasadenaCA
Thorsen, William Randolph, House, Berkeley, CA1908-1910BerkeleyCA
Tichenor, Adelaide M., House, Long Beach, CA1904-1905Long BeachCA
Williams, Nathan H., House, Altadena, CAAltadenaCA
Witbeck House, Santa Monica, CA1917Santa MonicaCA
van Rossem, Josephine, House, Pasadena, CA1903PasadenaCA

Publications

Lobell, John, "Books", AIA Journal, 66: 11, 82, 10/1977. National Trust for Historic Preservation, "The Built Environment", America's Forgotten Architecture, 56, 77, 1976. National Trust for Historic Preservation, "Living Spaces", America's Forgotten Architecture, 76, 1976. Bangs, Jean Murray, "Greene and Greene", Architectural Forum, 89: 4, 81-89, 10/1948. "Greene, Charles Sumner, Obituary", Architectural Record, 24, 8/1957. Mulllgardt, Louis Christian, "Country House Architecture on the Pacific Coast", Architectural Record, XXXVIII: 4, 422, 439-431, 1915-10. "A new appreciation of 'Greene and Greene", Architectural Record, 103: 138-140, 1948-05. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "R.R. Blacker House, 1907", Architecture in Los Angeles A Compleat Guide, 362, 1985. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Crow-Crocker House, 1909", Architecture in Los Angeles A Compleat Guide, 361, 1985. Hand, Raymond, T.B., "Jacob's Ladder", Arts and Decoration, XLV: 6, 35-37, 1937-02. "Road Trip House Tours", Better Homes and Gardens, 82: 7, 64, 2004-07. Mattison, Bonnie, "Metalwork", California Design 1910, 86. , 1980. Winter, Robert W., "The Arroyo Culture", California Design 1910, 27-29, 1980. Kalman, Harold, Exploring Vancouver 2, 239, 1978. McCoy, Esther, Five California Architects, 103-149, Frampton, Kenneth, "Charles Sumner Greene & Henry Mather Greene David B. Gamble House", GA Document Special Issue #3 Modern Architecture 1851-1945, 153-155, 1983. "Charles Sumner Greene & Henry Mather Greene David B. Gamble House", GA Document Special Issue 2 Modern Architecture 1851-1919, Special Issue 2: 153-155, 1981. Bosley, Edward R., Greene & Greene, 94, 2000. Bosley, Edward R., Greene and Greene, 148-154, 2000. Bosley, Edward R., Greene and Greene, 94, 2000. Bosley, Edward R., Greene and Greene, 95-100, 2000. Harris, Frank, Bonenberger, Weston, Guide to Contemporary Architecture in Southern California, 4-5, 1951. "American has always been a great place for the prophet without honor", House Beautiful, 92: 138-139, 178-179, 1952-05. Bangs, Jean Murray, "A Parting Salute to the Fathers of California Style", House and Home, 12: 84-95, 1957-08. "A Parting Salute to the Fathers of the California Style", House and Home, 12: 84-95, 1957-08. Brownstein, Elizabeth Smith, If This House Could Talk, 20-25, 1999. "Contemporary Regional Architecture", Journal of San Diego History, 8: 3, 114-119, 09/1947. Yost, Morgan, "Greene and Greene of Pasadena", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 9: 11-19, 03-05/1950. Wilson, Richard Guy, "The art and craft of Greene & Greene", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 69: 2, 297-298, 2010-06. "American Sheaves from 'C.R.A' and Janet Ashbee", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 30: 4, 317-322, 12/1971. Moss, Eric Owen, Lawson - Westen House, 6, 1995. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 390-391, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 400, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 24, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 390, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 372, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 390, 1994. Kaplan, Sam Hall, "Owner Balks at Returning Antiques: Preservationists Call Stripping of Home a 'National Tragedy'", Los Angeles Times, 1, 1985-10-20. Borden, Gail Peter, "Gamble House, Greene and Green Pasadena, California", Material Precedent The Typology of Modern Tectonics, 16-17, 114-118, 2010. Macintosh, Duncan, Modern Courtyard House, 9, 11, 1973. Honnold, Douglas, Southern California Architecture 1769-1956, 24, 1956. Shepherd, Roger, Structures of Our Time, 196, 2002. "The Cement Gun", Western Architect and Engineer, 44, 46, 04/1912.

Exhibitions

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