Location: Midland, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow On January 29, 1961, the Nease Memorial Church of the Nazarene was organized with 40 charter members. The congregation chose a flat, barren 4.5 acre site on the western edge of Midland, Michigan for its first...
Location: Roscommon, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow Alden B. Dow began the drawings for the Roscommon Congregational Church in February 1961. A contract was signed with a local building contractor, Bernard Streff, on July 17, 1961, with construction to be...
Location: Midland, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow The first church designed by Alden B. Dow was the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1941. The 275 members approached the architect with the idea that in building their place of worship...
Location: Grand Haven, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow Alden B. Dow began the design of the Methodist Church of the Dunes in 1957 and completed the working drawings in 1960. Construction bids amounting to $276,468 were accepted and the ground-breaking ceremony...
Location: Midland, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow Occupying an entire city block on a busy corner of Main Street in downtown Midland, the First Methodist Church was designed by Alden B. Dow in 1947. “The architecture of this church, he wrote, “is to inspire the...
Location: Midland, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow Alden B. Dow regarded St. John’s Lutheran Church on East Carpenter Street in Midland as one of his most significant religious structures. Designed in 1953, the nave of the church accommodates 600 people with no...