Add to ORKGDetail, steps and pergola over drive added in 1913; Josephine Van Rossem, a newly widowed artist, photographic laboratory worker, and land speculator hired the Greenes in 1903 to design this rental property (at the time a simple $3,800 clapboard cottage with a balloon frame), the first of three houses she would commission from them. Located across from her Arroyo View Drive home, she could easily keep an eye on her rental investment. The alterations for the later owner James Neil included the addition of the porch structure, the expressed timbers, the massive boulder and clinker brick wall, the pergola across the brick-paved drive and the conversion to the natural shingle (from horizontal clapboard siding). Source: Greene & Greene Virtual A...