“The bungalow architect must study carefully the practical conditions of the problem,” wrote Charles Greene in 1915. “And the personality of the owner forms one of the most difficult and at the same time most interesting parts of it.”

By the time he penned those words, Charles and his younger brother Henry had already done the major work that would secure their legacy as pioneers of “a new and native architecture,” in the language of the special commendation they would receive from the American Institute of Architects more than 35 years later in 1952.