Due to conflicts with her family she left Gleason Works in 1913 and found work at the Ingle Machining Company.She Joined Ingle Machine Company on the 1st of January 1914. She was appointed the receiver of bankruptcy for the company the first women to ever do so. Under her guidance she restored the company and repaid their outstanding debts. The company was returned to the stockholders before the end of 1915.After her endeavors with Ingle Machine Company she turned her attention to East Rochester where she helped to Finance and build 8 factories for various companies. In 1914, she was the first woman elected to full membership in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and represented the society at the World Power Conference in Germany. In 1918, she was appointed the President of First National Bank of East Rochester while the previous President was enlisted in World War I. During this period she took charge of a Problem loan and used it to finish the housing complexes left from the previous loan holder. She used this to further her humanitarian efforts in Rochester, starting eight companies, including a construction company that built houses for the middle class. After this success she took it upon herself to experiment with concrete to build cheap fireproof houses at an affordable cost using a pouring method she developed. After this success she described her methods in an article she wrote for a trade magazine, Concrete, in 1921 titled “How Women Builds Houses to Sell at a Profit for $4000”. Later, she left Rochester for Business opportunities in South Carolina and California. In the 1920s she rebuilt a castle in Septmonts France for herself. As well as helping the surrounding towns to recover from the damage left from the world war. During this time period she also toured California to study adobe buildings. In 1924, she was asked by Berkeley, California to help them rebuild after a fire. In the late 20’s she began to build more poured concrete buildings in Sausalito, California, but she ran into some more issues and the project was not as successful as her buildings in Rochester. Then at her winter home in Beaufort,South Carolina she had plans to make a community of garden apartments for artists and Writers but only 10 of these homes were completed at the time of her death.