Miss Mary L. Ranney House
Pasadena, California
1907
Mary L. Ranney was one of the talented draftspersons who apprenticed
with the Greenes before leaving architecture completely in 1913
to found Pasadena’s Westridge School for Girls. During
her tenure, she was allowed to claim credit for two projects
she designed at the Greene & Greene office. This was a rare
honor for a non-principal in a firm. One of these projects was
Miss Ranney’s own home in Pasadena, the last project designed
at the Park Place office. The house was designed as a two-story
rectangular block but with many of the signature characteristics
of the Greene & Greene firm. It had clinker-brick foundation
walls, wooden construction, asymmetrical windows, and limited
decoration. In 1912, a complementary wing addition was added
on the northeast side of the house.