
Home & Studio in Midland, Michigan
Designed and constructed during the 1930s, this National Historic Landmark exemplifies Dow’s unique approach to blending form and function, creating spaces that inspire and engage.
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About Alden B. Dow
Alden B. Dow was a man of his time, but created realities in architecture of the future. Innovative building practices merged with new, undefined materials allowing him to explore and create new solutions in architecture.
By designing structures that reflected the way we truly live as humans, he created spaces that not only nurture and comfort us, but also awaken our minds and help us to develop our own individual creativity.
His is a legacy that challenges us to look, examine and question the world, in the focused pursuit of the quality of life.

Northern Michigan University Learning Resources Center
Location: Marquette, Michigan Architect: Alden B. Dow Throughout his long career, Alden B. Dow designed close to 80 educational structures, from pre- and elementary schools to entire college campuses. In Michigan and elsewhere, the 1960’s brought enrollment increases in colleges and universities due to the baby boom generation entering college…
Saginaw YWCA by Alden B. Dow
Location: Saginaw, MichiganArchitect: Alden B. Dow In July 1963, Alden B. Dow began the first drawings for a new building for the Young Women’s Christian Association in Saginaw on South Jefferson Avenue. The Association had been housed in various temporary locations since 1950 when its original 1913 building had to…

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