From 1912 to 1922 , she worked with her father , a local builder , designing houses . After her father 's retirement in 1922 , Moody took a job as Assistant City Engineer until 1925 . After the 1925 earthquake , she and George Morrison , who had been her boss in the Civil Engineering office , formed a business partnership and worked on planned neighborhoods in the Goleta and Isla Vista . In 1932 , Moody designed a studio for her sister Mildred at 1086 Coast Village Road . It served as Mildred 's art studio and later both an antique shop and tea room . Throughout the 1930s , Moody built small , quaint Storybook Cottages , which were affordable during the Great Depression . Some of the first that she built — six cottages on Periwinkle Lane in Montecito — brought orders for six more on Rosemary Lane
1925 earthquake
1925 Santa Barbara earthquake
Harriet Moody