[2] Naramore first worked for Northwest Bridgeworks, a Portland company, as a cost estimator.
After a brief stint in Chicago, Naramore moved to Portland, Oregon, where he worked for Northwest Bridgeworks from 1909 to 1912 as a cost estimator.
He was appointed Architect and Superintendent of properties for the Portland School District, a job he held from 1912 to 1919.
[4] After 1931, Naramore practiced on his own designing institutional buildings; for example, he was a co-designer with Grainger & Thomas, and Bebb & Gould on Bagley Hall (1935–36) at the University of Washington.
During the Second World War the firm participated in a variety of joint ventures to carry out design of defense projects.