[1] Pattee received her undergraduate degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1916 with a thesis on the subject of designing a day school for girls.

[2][3] She spent the next two years in Groton, Massachusetts, at the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture for Women and obtained her diploma around 1918.

[4] In 1950, Pattee married fellow landscape architect Arthur Coleman Comey, also a city planner.

Early on, she worked for several architects before striking out on her own, including the firm of Stone and Webster (1919–21) and Lois Howe and Eleanor Manning.

[4] Pattee also taught at the Lowthorpe School for over twenty years, at one point serving as acting principal.