The Wayne State University’s University Center Building, later known as the Student Center, was designed to bring together three separate non-academic activities into one building:
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
In the early 1930s, the Dow Chemical Company partnered with the Ethyl Gasoline Company to build a plant to extract bromine from seawater off the coast of North Carolina. Although bromine had a number of industrial uses at the time, its primary use then was in the manufacture of ethylene
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
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
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
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.
Crescent Drive Home Tours MCMM is pleased to announce a return to in-person tours featuring self-guided tours of these three MCM homes on Crescent Drive: For the safety of all, masks will be required while in the homes. Please reserve online at www.abdow.org or call 989.839.2744 to book your tour.
Alden B. Dow began the drawings for Northeast Elementary School in December of 1951. It had a simple floorplan of five classrooms, an office, and a work room lined up on either side of a single corridor. It featured a monitor roof with glass block windows rising 5 feet above
After protecting the Sun/Rain Room for nearly six decades, the Kalamazoo Nature Center’s iconic dome and roof are being replaced. Designed by Alden B. Dow in 1961 and opened to the public in September 1964, the highlight of the Center has been the two-story tall grey Plexiglas dome. It spans
Alden B. Dow’s only residential structure to be built in Ohio is the Ralph E. Oberlin, Jr. residence in Canton. Mr. Oberlin was president of Igelstroem-Oberlin, Inc., an outdoor signage, banner, and poster printing company. He wrote to Mr. Dow about designing a home for his family in early 1960.
Dr. Mark Dick and his wife, Dr. Louise Schnute, were pediatricians practicing in Grand Rapids when they wrote to Alden B. Dow in March 1955 to ask if he would design a home for them. Dr. Schnute had first heard of the architect earlier when she was a resident at
Nestled among tall pines and set into a sloping lot overlooking Burt Lake in northern Michigan, Indian River Catholic Church was designed by Alden B. Dow in 1948. Very little documentation exists aside from specifications for a church and rectory building—no contract, no building contractor, no cost information, and scant
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