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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1904
Roger Henry Carleton Green, a barrister from Ireland, arrived
in Vancouver, Canada, in 1904. He had become acquainted with
the Greenes’ work during the time he lived in Sierra Madre,
California, near Pasadena. Green employed them to design his
home in the West End of Vancouver and likely had a local architect
supervise construction. The R. Henry C. Green house is a two-story,
five-bedroom house with an English-style half-timbered exterior
treatment similar to the Culbertson house of 1902. A single-level
octagonal conservatory, with a reinforced glass roof, projects
like a pavilion from the side of the house. The first impression
of this house is that it is less distinctive than some of the
other projects designed during this time, but the axial geometry
of the living room plan is unique. The first floor plan allows
for a clear sight line from the reception hall through the drawing-room
windows to the rear veranda, a precursor to the close connection
between entry and rear garden that the Greenes would routinely
establish in their larger projects. Also prescient in the design
is the square-cross plan of the drawing room, like that of the
Gamble house of 1908, that divides the room into functional
areas, with an inglenook facing a square bay of windows. Drawings
for alterations to the house were prepared by Henry Greene in
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