DWELL.com features The Alden B. Dow Home & Studio’s iconic collection pieces

Thank you DWELL.com for this wonderful story on Alden B. Dow’s collections of iconic furniture, textiles, and decorative arts. His eye for quality pieces has stood the test of time as he composed their order within his own home and studio, to create a personal space of inspiration and beauty, when they were first being […]

Alden B. Dow and the “Unidentified Man”

A photograph in the Archives marked “Alden B. Dow and Unidentified Man” led to the discovery of the little-known acquaintance between Mr. Dow and the premier landscape photographer of the American West, Ansel Adams, the unidentified man in the photo. Both men shared a passion for capturing the beauty of nature through photography. One of […]

Northeast Intermediate School, Midland, Michigan by Alden B. Dow

Northeast Intermediate School, Midland, Michigan   Alden B. Dow designed Northeast Intermediate School in 1949. It is an L-shaped two-story brick structure that uses ribbons of windows to bring light into classrooms and hallways. At the time of its dedication in November of 1951, it was recognized not only for its functional design but also […]

The Calvin A. Campbell Residence by Alden B. Dow

Calvin A. Campbell was a fraternity brother of Alden B. Dow’s at the University of Michigan in the 1920’s. In the summer of 1939, he contacted Mr. Dow about designing a home for him. Plans were drawn in late summer and construction was completed in July of 1940. The Campbell residence is a two and […]

Alden B. Dow’s Unbuilt Houses for K. T. Keller

T. Keller succeeded Walter Chrysler as the chief executive officer of the Chrysler Corporation in 1935. Between 1938 and 1940, Alden B. Dow presented Mr. and Mrs. Keller with several stunning designs for a home on a hill overlooking the St. Clair River in southeastern Michigan.   The very first plan in 1938 was for […]

The Howard Ball Residence by Alden B. Dow

The residence that Alden B. Dow designed for his cousin, Howard Ball, in 1935 is one of three unit block houses situated near one another on West St. Andrews Road in Midland, Michigan. They are all in close proximity to the Midland Country Club, also designed by Mr. Dow a few years earlier. From the […]

The James Pardee Residence by Alden B. Dow

Alden B. Dow began the design for a summer home in Midland for James and Elsa Pardee in January 1936, shortly after Mr. Pardee was elected chairman of the board of the Dow Chemical Company.  It would be Mr. Dow’s grandest commission and his most expensive unit block house to date in his young career. […]

Reservations open for 2017 Autumn Reflections Tours- Call 989-839-2744

October 7th and 8th We ask that you call the Home and Studio to reserve your spot today 989.839.2744 or Toll Free 866.315.7678 Michigan’s Architect Laureate, Alden B. Dow, designed over 600 structures and the entire City of Lake Jackson, Texas throughout his fifty-year career. In his home town of Midland, Michigan there are over […]

6/5/17 – This Week in the Archives: Alden B. Dow’s Houses for Ingersoll Village

As World War II drew to a close, Alden B. Dow actively participated in the design of badly needed low-cost housing.  Seeking an efficient and economical way to build homes, the Ingersoll Steel and Disc Division of Borg-Warner Corporation of Kalamazoo produced a prefabricated, all-in-one utility unit that could be dropped into a house to […]

Theory of Knowledge Students Complete Service Project at Alden B. Dow Home and Studio

The H.H. Dow High School International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge (ToK) class recently worked on a service project at the Alden B. Dow Home and Studio. Students painted the Unit Block “grape vine wall” in the inner courtyard of the Home and Studio. Architect Alden B. Dow designed 13 structures that used his rhomboid-shaped Unit […]

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