[10][11] The building features a two-story copper hood to vent the fireplace, exposed concrete buttresses to stabilize the hill, and unpainted redwood stressing the theory of organic architecture taught by Goff and Frank Lloyd Wright and the truth in materials.

[12] Autumn obtained U.S. citizenship in 1963[7] and within two years began involvement with local government, first being appointed in 1965 as a member of the Community Appearances Advisory Board.

[15] She served from 1974 to 1978 during the height of the rebuilding of a closed-over 100 acre shipyard sold by the US Government after World War II, Marinship on San Francisco Bay.

During her term as City Councilwoman she played a significant role in the redevelopment of this and other former Marinship properties working with other architects[16][17] including stopping overdevelopment projects offering to stud the shoreline of one of the most noted waterfronts in the world.

[citation needed] Autumn also worked with Wright's apprentice John Lautner and had an architectural vocabulary based strongly on her former instructor, Goff.

The murals, housed in Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas and Reno, depicted pioneering figures of the west and were completed in an expressionist style.

[7] Autumn was also a fine artist, holding exhibits of her work[25][26] and completed illustrations for a book of poems written by San Francisco writer Alice Paula.