Built in 1911, the house was designed by prominent Pasadena architects Charles and Henry Greene.

However, the home features gunite exterior walls and a tile roof, a unique combination among the Greenes' works.

[2] In 1917 the house was purchased by the wealthy widow Mrs. Dudley P. Allen of Cleveland, Ohio.

[4] She purchased it as a summer home that she enjoyed with her second husband Francis F. Prentiss, who later died there in 1937.

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