2022 Zonta Homewalk Tickets Available

  The Alden B. Dow Home and Studio is proud to collaborate with the Zonta Club of Midland to bring you the 41st Annual Zonta Homewalk. For several years now, Zonta incorporates Mid-Century Modern Structures in their wonderful holiday home walk making this uniquely Midland! Please join us as we celebrate great architecture, both old […]

Midland Hospital by Alden B. Dow

Alden B. Dow’s initial presentation drawing for a proposed Midland Hospital was dated August 1938, a full two years before the Midland Hospital Association was established.  The Association organized the fund raising campaign to build the city’s first hospital in 1940, eventually securing pledges of $275,000 from 5,200 community members.  A Federal Works Administration grant […]

Alden B. Dow Home and Studio Holiday Tours | December 1–31, 2022

Alden and Vada Dow made Christmas a joyous and playful family celebration. This December, experience the beauty and fun of their zooming scale trains, playful mechanical toys, shimmering Christmas tree decorations, joyous holiday music, and the warm and inviting atmosphere they created for family, friends and holiday guests in this Mid-Century Modern Masterpiece. Begin your […]

Alden B. Dow’s Houses for Ingersoll Village in Kalamazoo, Michigan

As World War II drew to a close, Alden B. Dow actively participated in the design of badly-needed, low-cost housing.  Seeking an efficient and economical way to build homes, the Ingersoll Steel and Disc Division of the Borg-Warner Corporation of Kalamazoo produced a prefabricated, all-in-one utility unit that could be manufactured off site and rolled […]

Generational Ties – Exhibit of the Fiber artwork of Leslie Anne Feagley

The Alden B. Dow Home and Studio is proud to host Generational Ties an exhibit of the Fiber artwork of Leslie Anne Feagley paired with the architectural design of her father, Alden B. Dow Associate Architect Jack P. Feagley. The exhibit is featured in the Second Drafting Room of the Alden B. Dow Studio and […]

Dow Chemical Company 2020 Building by Alden B. Dow

A recent Facebook post about the University of Michigan Administration Building and its demolition prompted an interesting observation about how “un-Dow-like” the design of the building appeared.  While the exterior displayed a composed order of squares and rectangles, it was not the first time Alden B. Dow composed the surface of a non-residential structure. Nine […]

Dow By Decade – Saturday, October 8, 2022

DOW BY DECADE Saturday, October 8, 2022 12- 4 pm, $25 per person Featuring self-guided interior tours of three Alden B. Dow designed homes                    1934  The Hanson Home                  1941  The Bass Home             […]

Demolition of the University of Michigan Administration Building in Ann Arbor, Michigan

During the 1950s and 1960s, Alden B. Dow built six university and three civic buildings in Ann Arbor.  Perhaps his most unusual campus building was the University of Michigan Administration Building, which he designed in 1964.  The exterior is like a geometric Mondrian painting rendered in three dimensions.  The brick curtain wall fastened to the […]

Nelson Street School/Parkdale Elementary School by Alden B. Dow

While the initial site plan for Midland High School was being sketched by Alden B. Dow in December of 1953, one corner of the same 60-acre plot of land was soon to become the location of Nelson Street Elementary School.  For the design, the Board of Education again selected Mr. Dow, who completed the drawings […]

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