Projects
The Clark T. Wells Residence by Alden B. Dow
Location: Grosse Point, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow Mrs. Clark T. Wells expressed her wishes for a home for her husband and family in a letter to Alden B. Dow on December 3, 1939. “We have decided to abandon the idea of a one-story house. We feel that perhaps...
The Paul Rood Residence by Alden B. Dow
Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow In the seven years after Alden B. Dow opened his practice in Midland, he built 13 houses using unit blocks, which became a kind of trademark. In the interest of flexibility and economy, he began exploring the...
The Mary Dow Residence by Alden B. Dow
Location: Saginaw, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow In 1936 Miss Mary Dow asked her nephew, Alden B. Dow, to design a retirement home for her in Saginaw, Michigan. She had purchased a narrow, sloping lot next to the First Congregational Church and just down the...
The Miner S. Keeler Residence by Alden B. Dow
Location: East Grand Rapids, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow The Miner S. Keeler house in East Grand Rapids was designed by Alden B. Dow in 1958. Situated on a wooded, wedge-shaped lot on the shore of a lake, the house is oriented toward the water and the...
The Joseph Cavanagh Residence by Alden B. Dow
Location: Midland, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow Joseph Cavanagh worked in the agricultural chemicals sales department of the Dow Chemical Company for his entire career, at a time when the company would become one of the nation’s foremost producers of...
The Thomas Defoe Residence by Alden B. Dow
Location: Bay City, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow Thomas Defoe was the president of Defoe Shipbuilding, a major manufacturer of sea-going vessels of every description, from fishing skiffs and pleasure crafts to Navy torpedo chasers and palatial yachts. He...
The Robert Myers Residence 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...
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...
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,...
The George Greene Residence 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...
