American architects Charles Sumner Greene (1868-1957) and his brother Henry Mather Greene ((1870-1954) were born in post-Civil War Ohio, where they received their first technical training in wood- and metalworking at the Cincinatti Technical Institute. They were enrolled for further study at MIT in Cambridge MA, then a typical Beaux Arts school. After spending several years in apprenticeships at various Boston architectural firms, the brothers relocated to Pasadena CA in 1893 in order to be with their family.