[1] As a child, she visited England with her father, where she was first exposed to William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement.
The following year she decided to open her own interior design firm in New York City.
During that first year, she received a commission to design a house for two Vassar professors, Edith Fahnestock and Rose Peebles.
[2] Yelping Hill is a private community started by Henry Seidel Canby, Lee Wilson Dodd, Beverly Waugh Kunkel, Henry Noble MacCracken, David Stanley Smith, and Mason Trowbridge with their wives and children, and served as a summer community in the spirit of the Quaker camps in the Poconos.
[1] Adams designed all the residences, co-planned the community, and served as a construction foreman.