The 10,000 sq ft English manor-style house had a string of California firsts: a gunite exterior, a shingle roof that imitated the thatched roofs in England, and a piano-shaped swimming pool. The two-storey house consisted of ten bedrooms, with interior designs by Elsie de Wolfe of New York and the San Francisco design house of Vickery, Atkins and Torrey.
Surrounding the property was an Italian-style garden inspired by the Fountains Abbey of Studley Royal Park in 18th-century England, which Greene visited in 1909. The four-level terrace used natural materials and featured design elements that complemented the landscape, which included a lily pond and a one-of-a-kind Roman pool that spanned a hundred yards in length.
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