High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Clarence William Whitehead Mayhew (March 1, 1906 – February 13, 1994) was an American architect best known as a designer of contemporary residential structures in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recognition came to him with a home designed in 1937 for the Manor family in Orinda, California; one which was included as an example of modern architecture`s effect on the contemporary ranch house in California in several post-war published compilations of residential works.