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The Allan R. McElwain House

On a ridge of Bull Canyon in Granada Hills, in the rural canyon country of the northwestern San Fernando Valley, stands the house Henry Mather Greene designed in 1951 for his only daughter Isabel and his son-in-law Allan R. McElwain. The commission, cataloged in the firm’s archival records under the client’s name as “Allan R. McElwain House,” was executed by Henry at the age of eighty-one — three years before his death on October 2, 1954, in Pasadena. The house’s construction was completed in 1954, the same year Henry died. The Allan R. McElwain House represents the very last documented architectural commission in Henry’s professional record, and as the closing entry of his entire career, it occupies a position within the broader Greene & Greene catalog that no other commission can occupy.

The commission was, in its specifics, a family commission. Allan R. McElwain was the husband of Isabel H. Greene (born approximately 1908 in California) — Henry and Emeline Greene’s only daughter and the only sister of Henry Dart Greene, W. Sumner Greene, and Elbert M. Greene. The 1951 design for the Bull Canyon house was Henry’s architectural work for the household of his daughter and son-in-law, executed in the same closing years of his life that had seen him relocate to live with the family of his eldest son Henry Dart Greene at 1405 La Solana Drive in Altadena (a relocation that had occurred in 1940 following Emeline’s death, House 24 in this directory). The 1951 commission represents Henry’s continuing architectural engagement with his children’s families across the closing decade of his life — the design discipline of his professional practice applied to the residential needs of his own immediate family.

The granddaughter who lived within the McElwain household at the time of the 1951 commission was Isabelle Clara McElwain — the only child of Allan R. McElwain and Isabel H. Greene McElwain, born in 1934 in Pasadena. In the years following her parents’ Granada Hills commission, and after a marriage to John R. Haller in 1956 that subsequently ended in divorce, she would adopt her maternal grandfather’s surname and establish her own celebrated career as Isabelle Greene, founder of Isabelle Greene & Associates Landscape Architects in Santa Barbara, Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and one of the most distinguished American landscape architects of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The 1951 commission thus stands at a precise architectural-historical hinge: Henry’s career closing on the same property where his granddaughter — who would carry the Greene name forward into the next generation of celebrated American design practice — was a teenage member of the household for which he was designing.

The McElwain Family

Allan R. McElwain married Isabel H. Greene at a date that public sources have not extensively documented; their daughter Isabelle Clara was born in 1934, suggesting a marriage in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Isabel H. Greene, born approximately 1908 in California, was the only daughter among the four children Henry and Emeline Augusta Dart Greene had raised in their Pasadena residences across the firm’s Peak Period and Henry’s solo Pasadena practice. Her three brothers — Henry Dart Greene (born September 20, 1900), W. Sumner Greene (born approximately 1907), and Elbert M. Greene (born approximately 1911) — had each established their own adult lives in the years before the 1951 McElwain commission.

The McElwain family’s principal residential context across the 1930s and 1940s was Pasadena, where Isabelle Clara grew up. The published landscape-architectural literature on Isabelle Greene’s life consistently identifies her as having “grown up in Pasadena” during her childhood years, with her formative environmental experiences including hiking in the Pasadena Arroyo and the San Gabriel Mountains. The 1951 commission for the Granada Hills house was thus, on the available evidence, executed during a period when the McElwain family was either preparing to relocate from Pasadena to the more rural Granada Hills setting, or was establishing the Bull Canyon property as a secondary or country residence alongside its principal Pasadena residence.

Granada Hills in 1951 was a substantially rural area of the northwestern San Fernando Valley. Bull Canyon Road, where the McElwain commission was placed, ran through canyon country that had developed across the early twentieth century as a setting for ranches, country estates, and rural residential properties on relatively large lots. The same canyon country had been the location of the 1939 Rancho Oro Grande Thoroughbred stud farm, which was sold in 1942 to actress Janet Gaynor and her husband Gilbert Adrian as “Bull Canyon Meadows,” and which would be sold again in 1953 to actor James Cagney for his Bull Canyon ranch at 17801 Bull Canyon Road. The McElwain commission at 18000 Bull Canyon Road was thus placed in immediate geographical proximity to the celebrated Cagney ranch property, in a canyon-country residential setting that was substantially distinct from the urban Pasadena context where Henry’s career had developed.

The biographical record of Allan R. McElwain himself — his profession, his personal background, his prior or subsequent residential history — is not extensively preserved in widely accessible online sources. His identification is primarily through his marriage to Isabel H. Greene, his fatherhood of Isabelle Clara McElwain, and his role as the named client of the 1951 Greene commission. The architectural record, in this respect, preserves his name within the firm’s catalog more clearly than the general historical record preserves his individual biography.

The 1951 Commission

Henry Mather Greene was eighty-one years old when he undertook the design of the Allan R. McElwain House in 1951. He had been a practicing architect for fifty-seven years, having opened the Greene and Greene practice with his brother Charles in Pasadena in 1894. He had executed his solo Pasadena practice for twenty-nine years following the 1922 dissolution of the partnership. He had outlived his wife Emeline by eleven years, his mother Lelia by an undetermined number of years (she had died sometime between April 1934 and 1940), his father Thomas Sumner Greene by twenty years (Thomas had died in January 1931), and was, in 1951, in the closing decade of his own life. He had been residing, since 1940, at the home of his eldest son Henry Dart Greene at 1405 La Solana Drive in Altadena.

The 1951 commission for his daughter Isabel and son-in-law Allan represents one of the most personally meaningful late-career engagements in Henry’s documented professional record. The decision to undertake an architectural commission at age eighty-one — designing a complete residential project for placement in rural Granada Hills, several years after his last documented previous commission (the 1940 Emeline and Lelia Gravemarkers, House 24 in this directory) — required the kind of professional engagement that aging architects do not typically undertake. The motivation was, on the available evidence, family. Henry’s daughter and son-in-law were establishing or relocating to a Granada Hills residence; the family architect, who had spent his entire professional life designing homes for clients across California, undertook the design of his own daughter’s residence as one of his final professional acts.

The commission’s design phase, dated by the Avery archive as 1951, would have involved the architectural design discipline that Henry’s fifty-seven years of practice had developed: the site analysis of the Bull Canyon property, the program development reflecting the McElwain family’s residential needs, the design drawings and specifications, the construction documentation, and the client coordination across the design process. At eighty-one, Henry would have been working with the assistance and probable substantial collaboration of the broader family — possibly Henry Dart Greene, who as Henry’s eldest son and the family member with whom Henry was residing would have been positioned to support the commission’s execution; possibly contractors and craftsmen Henry had worked with across his earlier practice; and possibly other family members assisting with the design and construction process. The specific details of the design’s collaborative authorship, beyond Henry’s named architectural attribution, are not extensively documented in widely accessible published sources.

The construction of the house is documented by Los Angeles County property records as completed in 1954. The three-year timeline between the 1951 design date and the 1954 construction completion would have spanned the design refinement, contract administration, and physical construction of the residence. The 1954 completion date is precisely contemporaneous with Henry’s October 2, 1954 death in Pasadena — the house and its architect’s life ended, in their respective architectural-historical timelines, in the same calendar year. Whether Henry lived to see the completed house or whether the construction completion followed his death by some weeks or months is not documented in the publicly accessible record, but the temporal coincidence between the architect’s death and the building’s completion is itself architecturally and biographically significant.

The Bull Canyon Site

The 1951 McElwain residence was placed on a parcel at 18000 Bull Canyon Road in Granada Hills, in the rural canyon country of the northwestern San Fernando Valley. The Bull Canyon area in 1951 was characterized by relatively large residential parcels, mature vegetation, hillside topography descending from the surrounding mountains, and a substantially rural residential character that contrasted sharply with the more urbanized context of central Pasadena where Henry’s career had been principally based. The neighborhood’s rural character would persist through the subsequent decades, with the Bull Canyon area only gradually being absorbed into the suburban San Fernando Valley as Greater Los Angeles’s residential development pressure spread across the second half of the twentieth century.

The contemporary structure at 18000 Bull Canyon Road, as documented by current real estate records, occupies a footprint of approximately 1,535 square feet, with three bedrooms and two bathrooms. The dimensions and program are substantially smaller than the substantial residential commissions of Henry’s earlier career — modest by the standards of the firm’s Pasadena Peak Period, and even by the standards of Henry’s substantial 1920s solo commissions. The 1951 McElwain commission was a modest mid-century family home, designed within the constraints of the early-postwar American residential building economy and within the practical considerations of an aging architect’s final professional engagement.

The neighborhood’s rural canyon-country character in 1951 was reinforced by the proximity of substantial ranch properties along Bull Canyon Road. The James Cagney Ranch at 17801 Bull Canyon Road, immediately adjacent to the McElwain commission’s location, would be acquired by the actor James Cagney in 1953 (two years after the McElwain commission’s design and one year before the residence’s completion) for his use as a horse-raising ranch property. The Janet Gaynor and Gilbert Adrian residence at “Bull Canyon Meadows,” which preceded Cagney’s ownership, had occupied the same property since 1942. The Bull Canyon residential setting, in 1951-1954, included substantial connections to the Hollywood entertainment industry’s rural-residential traditions — actors and entertainment figures using the relatively close but topographically separate San Fernando Valley canyons as country retreats from the urban Hollywood and Beverly Hills environments.

Whether the McElwain family’s selection of the Bull Canyon site represented their participation in this broader pattern of canyon-country residential life, their specific personal preferences for the landscape and topography of Granada Hills, or some other combination of factors, is not documented in widely accessible published sources. What is documented is that the family chose this specific rural canyon-country location for the residence Henry designed for them, in a setting substantially distant from the Pasadena urban context where the family’s previous residential life had been centered.

Isabelle Clara McElwain — A Granddaughter at the House’s Threshold

Isabelle Clara McElwain — the granddaughter who would, in subsequent decades, become the celebrated landscape architect Isabelle Greene — was seventeen years old at the time of her grandfather’s 1951 design for her parents’ Granada Hills residence. She had been born in 1934 in Pasadena, in the year Lelia Mather Greene was photographed in Charles’s Carmel garden by Henry; she had grown up in Pasadena across the years of Henry’s later solo practice, encountering the architectural environment of his work through the family’s broader residential context. The published landscape-architectural literature on her career consistently identifies her early childhood architectural exposure to her grandfather’s work — particularly her familiarity with the house Henry had designed for his own family in Altadena (likely a reference to either Henry’s Pasadena residence or his subsequent Altadena residence with Henry Dart Greene’s family at 1405 La Solana Drive). Her grandfather, in her later recollections, encouraged her early drawings and engaged with her artistic interests during her formative childhood years.

In 1951, Isabelle was a seventeen-year-old high school student or recent graduate, approaching the transition to her university studies. She would subsequently enroll at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she would earn a Bachelor of Arts in taxonomic botany in 1956, beginning the academic and professional trajectory that would eventually lead her to landscape architecture. Her marriage to John R. Haller, also in 1956, would briefly produce her first published professional name — “Isabelle Haller” appears as the credited botanical illustrator on Walter H. Muller’s 1963 textbook Botany, A Functional Approach. Her subsequent career would unfold across the second half of the twentieth century: botanical illustration work from 1957 to 1965; a second Bachelor of Arts in art with a painting emphasis from UC Santa Barbara from 1965 to 1969; her divorce from John Haller in the 1960s and her subsequent adoption of her grandfather’s surname Greene; landscape design work from 1964 onward; her registration as a landscape architect in California in 1982; and the establishment of Isabelle Greene & Associates as one of the most distinguished American landscape architectural practices of the late twentieth century.

The architectural-historical significance of Isabelle’s relationship to the 1951 McElwain commission is substantial. The seventeen-year-old granddaughter of the architect, observing the design and construction of her parents’ new residence by her eighty-one-year-old grandfather, was being formed within a family architectural environment that would substantially shape her subsequent landscape architectural sensibility. Her later professional statements — preserved in the documentation of her firm Isabelle Greene & Associates — explicitly acknowledge “her legacy as granddaughter of Henry Mather Greene, of Greene & Greene Architects, pioneers of the early Craftsman movement in Southern California,” and identify her professional commitments to construction detail, design rigor, and material craftsmanship as continuations of the family architectural tradition Henry had established. The 1951 commission stands at the precise hinge between Henry’s career closing — this is his last documented commission — and Isabelle’s career being seeded — she would become the next generation’s celebrated bearer of the Greene architectural name and design tradition.

The fact that the celebrated landscape architect Isabelle Greene began her life as Isabelle Clara McElwain, and that her teenage years coincided with her grandfather’s design of her parents’ Granada Hills residence, gives the 1951 commission a multi-generational architectural-historical significance that few late-career commissions in American architectural history can match. The Greene family’s architectural lineage — Charles and Henry Mather Greene of Greene & Greene from the 1890s through the 1950s; their granddaughter Isabelle Greene from the 1960s through the present — was passing across the threshold of the 1951 commission, with the closing of the elder generation’s career coinciding with the formative period of the next generation’s design education.

The 1954 Completion and Henry’s Death

Construction of the Allan R. McElwain House at 18000 Bull Canyon Road was completed in 1954, in the same calendar year as Henry Mather Greene’s death on October 2, 1954, at age eighty-four, in Pasadena. The temporal coincidence between the architect’s death and the building’s completion is among the most architecturally significant biographical moments in the firm’s catalog. The architect, who had spent his career designing residential architecture for clients across California, died in the same year that his last commission — designed for his own daughter and son-in-law — was completed. The career and the life ended, in their respective architectural-historical timelines, in the same calendar year, with the closing commission completed for the closing relative of his own immediate family.

Whether Henry lived to see the McElwain house in its completed state — whether he visited the Bull Canyon site in 1954 before his October death, whether he saw photographs of the construction completion, whether the timing of his death and the construction’s conclusion was such that he knew the house had been finished — is not documented in widely accessible published sources. What is documented is that the 1951 commission was completed in 1954, that Henry died on October 2, 1954, and that the temporal coincidence places the closing of his career precisely at the closing of his life.

Henry’s death came two years after he and Charles had been honored, in 1952, by the American Institute of Architects. Their work was included in the AIA’s centennial exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, recognizing — at long last and at the very end of both brothers’ lives — the architectural-historical significance of the firm’s Pasadena Peak Period and Late Period output. Henry had thus spent the years between the 1951 McElwain commission and his 1954 death in the unique context of newly received institutional architectural honor, even as his last commission was being constructed for his daughter and son-in-law in Granada Hills. The architectural-historical recognition that had eluded the firm for the better part of three decades arrived in time for Henry to receive it at age eighty-two, two years before his death.

Charles Sumner Greene would survive his brother Henry by less than three years. Charles died on June 11, 1957, in Carmel-by-the-Sea, at age eighty-eight, and was buried at El Encinal Cemetery in Monterey near the gravestone he had designed for their father in 1931 (House 22 in this directory). Henry was buried at the cemetery in San Gabriel where he had designed the gravemarkers for Emeline and Lelia in 1940 (House 24). The two brothers, who had grown up together in St. Louis, who had attended MIT together, who had practiced together in Pasadena across thirty years of partnership, and who had pursued separate solo careers across the post-1922 decades, were buried in the family burial settings their own funerary commissions had established — Charles at the cemetery where his 1931 commission stood, Henry at the cemetery where his 1940 commission stood.

The Family Architecture of Henry’s Closing Years

The 1951 Allan R. McElwain House completes a particular architectural-historical pattern that defined the closing decade of Henry Mather Greene’s career. Across the years from 1940 through 1951, Henry’s documented professional record consisted substantially of family architectural commissions:

Two commissions, eleven years apart, both for members of Henry’s own immediate family. The 1940 commission for funerary markers at the Church of Our Savior Cemetery, the 1951 commission for the Granada Hills residence — these were the two principal documented commissions of Henry’s closing decade. The closing of his career was substantially the architectural commemoration and provision for his own family members.

The pattern parallels, with substantial precision, the closing-career pattern of Charles Sumner Greene’s late professional life. Charles, in 1931, had executed the Thomas Sumner Greene Gravestone at El Encinal Cemetery in Monterey for his deceased father (House 22 in this directory) — funerary architectural design for his own family member. The two brothers, in their late careers, had each undertaken substantial family-architectural commissions: Charles for his father in 1931, Henry for his wife and mother in 1940 and his daughter and son-in-law in 1951. The Greene & Greene firm, which had begun its career in 1894 with substantial residential commissions for outside clients across the Pasadena residential market, ended its career — across both brothers’ separate closing trajectories — with substantial commissions for the architects’ own immediate family members.

The architectural-historical pattern is unusual within the broader American residential architecture tradition. Architects, in general, design buildings for outside clients — for the Gambles, the Blackers, the Cordelia Culbertsons, the David L. Jameses, the Mortimer Fleishhackers, the Robert R. Blackers. The buildings of an architect’s career are typically dispersed across the families and properties of clients who engaged the architect’s services. The closing chapters of an architect’s career, when those chapters consist substantially of commissions for the architect’s own family members, represent a pattern of family-architectural inheritance that the broader American architectural tradition encounters relatively rarely. The Greene & Greene firm’s late-career engagement with family architecture — Charles’s 1931 gravestone, Henry’s 1940 gravemarkers, Henry’s 1951 house for his daughter — together constitute one of the most concentrated late-career family-architectural patterns in the firm’s broader catalog and in the broader residential architectural literature.

The Building’s Place in the Greene & Greene Story

The Allan R. McElwain House occupies, within the firm’s complete catalog, the unique position of being the very last documented commission in either brother’s professional record. The 1951 commission stands as the chronological closing of the firm’s documented architectural production, completing a fifty-seven-year arc from the 1894 establishment of Greene & Greene in Pasadena through the 1951 design of Henry’s last commission. No subsequent architectural commission appears in the firm’s documented record after 1951; Henry’s October 1954 death and Charles’s June 1957 death (Charles having essentially withdrawn from architectural production by the 1940s) brought the firm’s active professional output to its definitive conclusion.

The commission also occupies the unique position of being a family commission undertaken by an octogenarian architect for his own daughter and son-in-law. The professional dedication required to undertake a complete residential commission at age eighty-one — the design discipline, the project administration, the construction coordination — represents a kind of late-career professional engagement that aging architects rarely sustain. Henry’s willingness to undertake the McElwain commission at this age, for these specific family members, demonstrates both the continuing professional vitality of his late-career engagement and the depth of his family-architectural commitment.

The building’s significance also extends through its multi-generational family connection. The teenage granddaughter who lived within the McElwain family at the time of the 1951 commission, Isabelle Clara McElwain, would in subsequent decades become Isabelle Greene — one of the most distinguished American landscape architects of the late twentieth century, founder of Isabelle Greene & Associates, ASLA Fellow, and the bearer of the Greene architectural name into the next generation of celebrated American design practice. The 1951 commission stands at the precise hinge between Henry’s career closing and Isabelle’s career being seeded, with the family architectural lineage passing across the threshold of the Granada Hills residence.

The commission concludes the entire Greene & Greene catalog of approximately 224 documented commissions, completing the firm’s professional record across fifty-seven years of California architectural practice. From the firm’s first commissions in the mid-1890s, through the Pasadena Peak Period of the 1907-1910 ultimate bungalows, through the firm’s late period of post-1922 separate solo practices for the two brothers, through Charles’s Carmel work and Henry’s continuing Pasadena practice, through the funerary commissions of 1931 and 1940, and finally through the 1951 family commission that closes Henry’s career in the year of his death — the firm’s catalog reaches its definitive conclusion at the Allan R. McElwain House at 18000 Bull Canyon Road in Granada Hills.

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Closing Reflection

A career has chapters, and within those chapters there are particular moments that distill the architect’s professional life and personal commitments together at a level of compression that few other professional moments can achieve. The 1951 Allan R. McElwain House at 18000 Bull Canyon Road in Granada Hills is one of those distilled moments. It is, in its specific architectural-historical positioning, the very last commission of Henry Mather Greene’s fifty-seven-year career as a practicing architect. It is the last documented entry in the Greene & Greene catalog of approximately 224 commissions across more than five decades of California architectural production. It is a family commission, executed by an eighty-one-year-old grandfather for his only daughter and son-in-law. It is a residence completed in 1954, the same calendar year as the architect’s October death. And it is the building beneath whose roof a teenage granddaughter — Isabelle Clara McElwain, who would become Isabelle Greene — was being formed within the family architectural environment that would substantially shape her subsequent landscape architectural sensibility and her decades of celebrated professional work.

Henry Mather Greene, in the spring or summer of 1951, sat at his drawing table — possibly at his son Henry Dart Greene’s home at 1405 La Solana Drive in Altadena, where he had been living since Emeline’s 1940 death — and undertook the design of his daughter Isabel and son-in-law Allan’s new residence in Granada Hills. He was eighty-one years old. He had been a practicing architect since 1894. He had outlived his wife by eleven years, his mother by an undetermined number of years, his father by twenty years. His brother Charles, age eighty-three in 1951, was still living in Carmel, in the Carmel residence and studio he had completed in 1923-24, with six more years of life ahead of him. The American Institute of Architects centennial exhibition that would honor both brothers was one year away. Henry had three years and a few months of life ahead of him.

The commission was undertaken. The drawings were drawn. The construction was managed. The house was built at 18000 Bull Canyon Road in the rural canyon country of the northwestern San Fernando Valley, in immediate proximity to the property that would shortly become James Cagney’s horse-raising ranch. The construction was completed in 1954. The architect died on October 2, 1954, at age eighty-four, in Pasadena. The teenage granddaughter who had observed her grandfather’s design across her seventeenth and eighteenth years would, across the subsequent decades of her own life, take her grandfather’s name and become Isabelle Greene of Isabelle Greene & Associates Landscape Architects — one of the most distinguished American landscape architects of the late twentieth century, ASLA Fellow, designer of nearly six hundred landscape projects across her continuing career.

The Greene & Greene catalog closes at the Allan R. McElwain House. The fifty-seven-year arc that began in 1894 with the brothers’ establishment of their Pasadena practice ends in 1951 with Henry’s design of his daughter’s residence. The two thousand-some pages of design drawings preserved in the firm’s archives at Columbia University, at the University of California Berkeley, and at the USC Greene & Greene Archives at the Huntington Library document the full career — from the early 1890s shingle-style commissions through the Pasadena Peak Period ultimate bungalows through the firm’s Late Period post-1922 separate solo practices through the funerary commissions of 1931 and 1940 and finally through the 1951 family commission that closes Henry’s career. The catalog is complete. The commissions have been executed. The buildings have been built. The architects have lived their lives, executed their professional work, witnessed their architectural-historical recognition, and died at the conclusion of their respective careers.

But the work continues, in the form it always continues — through the continuing presence of the buildings themselves, through their continuing inhabitation by the families who have lived within them across the subsequent decades, through their continuing architectural-historical significance for the broader study of American residential architecture, and through the next generation of design practitioners who carry forward the family architectural tradition that Charles and Henry established. The Gamble House, in Pasadena, continues as a museum of the firm’s Peak Period output. The Blacker House, in Pasadena, continues in private residential use. The Robert R. Blacker House, the Cordelia Culbertson House, the William R. Thorsen House in Berkeley, the Charles Pratt House in Ojai, the David L. James House at the Carmel Highlands, the John Langley Howard House and Studio in Monterey, the Allan R. McElwain House in Granada Hills — these buildings continue to stand at their respective sites, continue to be inhabited or visited, continue to constitute the physical record of the firm’s professional output across its fifty-seven-year career.

And Isabelle Greene, in Santa Barbara, continues at this writing — in her early nineties as of this directory’s preparation — her own continuing landscape architectural practice. The granddaughter who was a teenager when her grandfather designed her parents’ Granada Hills residence in 1951 has carried the Greene architectural name into the twenty-first century, with her firm Isabelle Greene & Associates designing landscape projects across the western United States across more than six decades of professional engagement. The family architectural tradition that began with Charles and Henry Greene’s Pasadena practice in 1894 has thus extended, through Isabelle Greene’s career, into the present moment of California design practice — a multi-generational architectural lineage that the 1951 Allan R. McElwain House sits at the precise hinge between.

The catalog of Greene & Greene commissions closes at the Allan R. McElwain House. Henry Mather Greene died in 1954. The house was completed in 1954. The granddaughter watched her grandfather’s last commission take shape. The granddaughter became the next generation. The architecture of family inheritance — the closing of one career and the opening of the next — was completed in the rural canyon country of Granada Hills, in 1951, by an eighty-one-year-old architect designing his daughter’s residence as the final professional act of his fifty-seven-year career.

The work is done. The catalog is complete. The Pile B directory of Greene & Greene late-career commissions closes here, at the Allan R. McElwain House, with the final commission of Henry Mather Greene’s professional life and the threshold residence of the granddaughter whose own career would carry the family architectural tradition into the next generation of American design practice.

The architecture of love, in its residential form, was completed.

The architecture of inheritance, in its multi-generational form, continues.

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