224 commissions across six decades. Scroll through time to explore every house, building, and structure designed by Charles Sumner and Henry Mather Greene.
Formative years in Pasadena. Charles and Henry Greene establish their practice, working within Victorian and Colonial Revival conventions while absorbing the influences — Japanese craft, English Arts & Crafts, California light — that would soon transform their work entirely.
The brothers reach full artistic maturity. Japanese craft philosophy, English Arts & Crafts ideals, and California's landscape fuse into something wholly original — culminating in the Gamble House, the Blacker House, and their recognition as masters of a new American architecture.
Working increasingly independently, the brothers refine rather than reinvent. The partnership continues but the pace of major commissions slows — each remaining project a meditation on craft, joinery, and the California landscape they had made their own.
Charles retreats to Carmel; Henry continues quietly in Pasadena. Working apart, each brother pursues his own vision — Charles's increasingly mystical, Henry's rooted in the Pasadena he shaped. The commission timeline draws toward its close.
Four decades of quiet mastery. The Greene brothers asked what California architecture could become — and answered it, commission by commission, joint by joint, beam by beam.