Walker & Gillette

[3] Her father was Grenville Kane, banker and longtime presence in the exclusive enclave of Tuxedo Park, New York, where Walker & Gillette received important early commissions.

The latter as of 1915 were a step below the great Gilded Age Newport mansions of 30 years prior, but still elaborate enough to sometimes require 20 or 30 rooms, multiple outbuildings, and customized features.

Their 16 houses on Long Island were designed for clients such as Irving Brokaw, Ralph Pulitzer, Charles Lane Poor, and William R. Coe.

As to the townhouses in the city, the firm is credited with some fine examples and "the last great mansion to be built in New York",[5] the 1932 Regency-style Loew house on East 93rd.

One prominent civic commission was the seamless extension, to north and south, of the New-York Historical Society building on Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets, carried out in 1938.