As people become more famous or popular, isn’t it interesting how curiosity, on a personal level, blossoms around them?  Why do you think tabloids exist?  Well, you won’t find these facts next to the checkout at the grocery store…you can only find them here. 

“Fun can be found almost everywhere.  If one works to find it, only then is it elusive.” ~ Alden B. Dow

Be a fly on our walls! Maybe these are some of the answers you want to know…

• The Home and Studio is 20,000 square feet or roughly 1,858 square meters.
• Alden Dow loved to ice skate (on his own pond).   
• Chocolate was a favorite treat of Alden Dow. 
• Yes, there are fish, frogs and turtles in the pond.    
• Vada Dow was the eldest of the eight Bennett children. 
• Alden Dow designed a fur-covered house AND had a patent on it. 
• Alden Dow designed his own clothes.  
• Alden Dow and Frank Lloyd Wright had a life-long friendship. 
• Frank Lloyd Wright never came (although invited) to the Studio. 
• Alden Dow’s favorite composer was Beethoven. 
• The Dows always had dogs their home.   
• The Floating Conference Room has never flooded in its 74 years. 
• Alden Dow played the violin. 
• Alden Dow made over 300 movies on nature, family, architecture, and much more. 
• Alden Dow played football for Midland High School. 
• Alden Dow had the first go-cart in Midland…it was bright red. 
• Alden Dow enjoyed Harpo Marx, a favorite costume of his for Halloween.
• Alden Dow loved cameras, mechanical toys and model trains.

(For photography credits, see the photographer page.)