Projects
Midland Farmers Market by Alden B. Dow
Location: Midland, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow The first discussion about the design of a structure to cover farmers selling their produce in the open parking lot at the foot of Ashman Street took place in March 1973. Those meeting notes describe a simple...
The Chippewa Nature Center’s Interpretive Building by Alden B. Dow
Location: Midland, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow As early as 1965, the long-range plan for the Center called for a building with a museum, library, auditorium, classroom, workshop and related facilities. In 1970, three years after the completion of the Nature...
The Chippewa Nature Center’s Nature Study Building by Alden B. Dow
Location: Midland, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow The Nature Observatory (Nature Study Building) The inspiration to establish a place for the study of the natural environment in the Midland area first came to the members of the Midland Nature Club in 1963. Their...
Smith’s Flower Store by Alden B. Dow
Location: Midland, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow Alden B. Dow began the design of a large standalone building for Smith’s Flowers in September 1954. The shop had been in its original location in the nearby Ashman Circle business district in Midland, Michigan for...
Bay City Jewish Center by Alden B. Dow
Location: Bay City, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow Just a year after completing the design of Messiah Lutheran Church in Bay City, Alden B. Dow began developing the first of a number of schemes for the Bay City Jewish Center in 1955. The first drawings showed a...
The Peters “Pat” Oppermann Residence by Alden B. Dow
Location: Saginaw, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow Alden B. Dow began the drawings for a house for his lifelong friend, Peters “Pat” Oppermann, in 1957. Mr. Oppermann was a business leader in Saginaw and owner of Radio Center, an early radio shop that grew with...
The Preservation of the Movies of Alden B. Dow
Alden B. Dow loved to make movies. Whether it was showing the construction of the Midland Center for the Arts, capturing the changing seasons around his Home and Studio, documenting his time as a Taliesin Fellow, or recording his children growing up and having...
The Dow Gardens Greenhouse
Location: Midland, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow In the later years of his career, Alden B. Dow turned his attention to designing a number of structures to enhance the enjoyment of and upgrade the facilities of Dow Gardens. Throughout the 1970s he developed a...
Midland Fire Station No. 1 by Alden B. Dow
Location: Midland, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow Midland Fire Station No. 1 is one of the 39 civic structures designed by Alden B. Dow during his career. He completed the working drawings on April 23, 1955, and in June the construction contract was awarded to...
Midland Hospital by Alden B. Dow
Location: Midland, Michigan Architect: 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...
