Winter-2022

In 1918, Kansas City businessman D.L. James commissioned famed architect Charles Sumner Greene to design a granite house on his land in the Carmel Highlands, high on a rocky outcrop- ping above the Pacific. The design of the home was based on the ruins of Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, England. Greene—together with his brother Henry Mather Greene and their Pasadena architecture firm, Greene and Greene—was a towering figure in the American Arts and Crafts movement.The pair are known for developing their large and stately “Ultimate Bungalows,” which they designed and built mainly in Pasadena. Greene moved his family north to live in the artist colony of Carmel in 1916 and took on the commission of The D.L. James House two years later. Quarried from local stone, the project took approximately five 98 C A R M E L M A G A Z I N E • W I N T E R 2 0 2 2 Designed by architect Charles Sumner Greene of the famous Arts and Crafts style design firm Greene and Greene, the home was originally created for Kansas City businessman D.L. James and built over the ocean on a rocky outcropping.