The Greenes prepared plans in February 1901 for two bungalows
to be built in Ocean Park (now part of Santa Monica) for David
Tod Ford, Sr., president of the Youngstown Iron and Steel Co.
Although these bungalows were never built, this was the beginning
of the Greenes' fruitful relationship with the Ford family. Tod
Ford Sr. had several connections to the Greene & Greene firm. His
son, Freeman Ford, commissioned the Greenes to design his own house and
worked again with them professionally in his position as the
Vice-President of the Pasadena Ice Company. Ford also introduced the
Greenes to Mrs. Henry M. Robinson, for whom the firm would build a large
house.
