Junia Doan’s The Spark featuring Craig McDonald “Life Lessons from Alden B. Dow”
Click Here to view Junia Doan’s “The Spark” featuring Craig McDonald Director of The Alden B. Dow Home and Studio “Life Lessons from Alden B. Dow”
US Modernist Radio – Architecture You Love #77/Michigan Modern: Michael Dow + Susan Bandes + Brian Conway with Musical Guests The Mac McLaughlin Group
CLICK HERE to listen to US Modernist Radio – Architecture You Love #77/Michigan Modern: Michael Dow + Susan Bandes + Brian Conway with Musical Guests The Mac McLaughlin Group Michigan, that fine state shaped like your hand, is a hotbed of amazing Modernism. Today George Smart and co-host Bob Langford chat with three knowledgeable guests […]
The Robert Myers Residence, Lapeer, Michigan by Alden B. Dow
Robert Myers was a successful dairy farmer turned editor and publisher of the Lapeer, Michigan, County Press. In May of 1950, he approached Alden B. Dow with an idea to build an unconventional farm house on his 400-acre farm. Myers used the words of Henry David Thoreau to describe his dream home: “Home would be […]
The Grace A. Dow Memorial Library by Alden B. Dow
As President of the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation, Alden B. Dow wrote a letter to Midland’s city manager in 1950 expressing the Foundation’s wish to finance the design and construction of a new public library to be situated in what then was the family’s apple orchard at the corner of Eastman Road […]
The Phoenix Civic Center by Alden B. Dow
Beginning in 1949, the Phoenix Civic Center was designed in stages by Alden B. Dow. His plan grouped a public library, a little theater, an art museum, and support facilities around a square interior courtyard whose landscaping included a pool and native plants, creating an oasis in the desert. The entrance is approached through a […]
The George Greene Residence, Midland, Michigan by Alden B. Dow
In the spring of 1936, Alden B. Dow prepared drawings of a residence for George Greene, a plant engineer with the Dow Chemical Company. Construction of the 1600 square foot house began in June 1936 and was completed in March 1937 at a final cost of $16, 983. It was the second of three houses […]
Light From Above – Midland’s Houses of Faith
An exploration of nine of the most architecturally significant Houses of Faith in Midland. Download