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Pasadena, California
1908
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.
In April 1901, Mr. Ford purchased a large Shingle Style house
on South Grand Avenue in Pasadena. In 1905 and 1906, the Greenes
designed alterations and additions to his Grand Avenue property.
In the meantime, however, the Fords had persuaded Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Robinson (Mrs. Robinson was Mrs. Ford's cousin) to purchase
a parcel north of theirs on Grand Avenue. The Robinsons commissioned
their house from the Greenes in 1905, and in 1906, Freeman Ford,
Tod Ford's son, commissioned his house from the Greenes, to
be sited between his father's and the Robinson's property. After
Ford's death in 1907, his other son, Tod, Jr., lived in the
family home, commissioning the Greenes to do further alterations
and additions to the main house, and in 1908 to a bungalow at
the rear of the property. Tod Jr. demolished both buildings
in 1917 to make way for his new house, designed by Reginald
Johnson.
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