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By the time Alden B. Dow began the drawings for the Hillsdale College Nursery, he had already outlined the campus master plan in 1959 and had designed several other buildings for the school, including the Strosacker Science Center, student center, dining hall and women’s dormitory. The original Hillsdale Nursery School

The Dunbar Community Center was founded in 1923 in Ann Arbor by the Rev. R.M. Gilbert of the Second Baptist Church.  Named for the noted Black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, it was a vibrant gathering place for the predominantly Black community in which it was located, with recreational and educational

The Conductron Corporation was founded in 1960 by University of Michigan professor of electrical engineering, Dr. Keeve “Kip” Siegel. It was a research and development firm that developed radar for aerial reconnaissance among many other high-tech innovations for the time. Alden B. Dow was hired by Dr. Siegel to design

University Microfilms was founded in 1938 in Ann Arbor by Eugene Power.  During World War II, Power microfilmed thousands of rare books and periodicals in British libraries to preserve their contents from possible destruction.  Not long after that, his business expanded to include the large-scale microfilming of dissertations, theses, newspapers,