Alden B. Dow designed two homes in Elkhart, Indiana, nearly opposite each other on the St. Joseph River. The first was for the William Koerting family in 1937. Two years later he developed preliminary floorplans for a home for Dr. Millard Fleming. Working...
Alden and Vada Dow were long-time supporters of the work of the Salvation Army in Midland. Mrs. Dow served on its advisory board during the 1950’s and 60’s, and Mr. Dow donated bushels of apples from the Dow orchards every year to the annual Fall Harvest Festival...
Enroll your child in a summer camp at the Alden B. Dow Home and Studio and see them expand their view of the world! The Home and Studio’s goal is to challenge campers to think in new ways about architecture and the spaces people inhabit, engage in interactive...
Alden B. Dow began the initial drawings for the East Ashman Church of God in April of 1953. A reduced version of the presentation drawing was published a month later in the Midland Daily News with the caption announcing the launch of a fundraising campaign for the...
2022 Tunnel Tours At The Alden B. Dow Home and Studio Saturdays in February March and April and Spring Break Week 3/28/2022 to 4/1/2022 Have you ever wanted to explore and discover a hidden underground passage way? "The Tunnel" is just one of the many captivating...
While traveling in Japan in April of 1960, Alden and Vada Dow purchased a pair of folding screens from Yamoto Brothers and Company in Kyoto, along with a set of old brass carpenter’s tools. The folding screens were described on the original invoice as Old Gold...
Also known as the House for $3,000, the John Best residence was designed by Alden B. Dow in 1938 to remedy the need for housing to accommodate the expanding workforce of the Dow Chemical Company. It was one of several affordable small homes he designed for Midland...
As an avid photographer and film maker, Alden B. Dow was rarely without his cameras and eventually produced an extensive library of over 300 films. Whether it was documenting the construction of one of his own designs, exploring nature’s splendor around his own...
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...
As previously announced, The Alden B. Dow Home and Studio and Mid-Century Modern Midland (MCMM) will be hosting special tour offerings as part of the National Travel and Leisure Tour Day, on Saturday, October 9th. In addition to exclusive Home and Studio tours,...
Alden B. Dow began developing plans for a home for the Robert W. Freligh family in Adrian, Michigan, in early 1959. By June, the architect had prepared a preliminary sketch and enclosed it with a letter in which he described the multi-level layout he envisioned:...
Formes et couleurs: vingt planches en couleurs contenant soixante-sept motifs decoratifs is an album designed by Auguste H. Thomas and published in Paris by Librairie Centrale des Beaux Arts in 1921. It is composed of 67 decorative motifs on 20 plates measuring...