The Alden B. Dow Architecture Study Collection contains architectural drawings and blueprints for eight of Alden B. Dow's architectural works in Michigan. These items relate to a visit to NC State University's School of Design in 1951. The collection also includes a letter from Dean Henry Kamphoefner to Dow highlighting Dow's visit. ...
MoreThe Alden B. Dow Architecture Study Collection contains architectural drawings and blueprints for eight of Alden B. Dow's architectural works in Michigan. These items relate to a visit to NC State University's School of Design in 1951. The collection also includes a letter from Dean Henry Kamphoefner to Dow highlighting Dow's visit. Alden B. Dow (1904-1983) was a Modernist architect. The son of Grace and Herbert Dow, of Dow Chemical Company, he graduated from Midland High School and in 1923 attended the University of Michigan for engineering. After three years, he left to study architecture at Columbia University, graduating in 1931. In the summer of 1933, he and his wife Vada Bennett studied under Frank Lloyd Wright. Dow opened his own firm, Alden B. Dow Associates, in 1934. He was known for the many homes he designed in the modernist style, mostly in Michigan. His structures in North Carolina include the 1934 Ethyl-Dow House Prototypes designed as residences at Kure Beach for the bromine factory run jointly by Dow Chemical Company and Ethyl Corporation from 1934 to 1946, and the 1963 Duke University President's House in Durham. Dow was awarded the Diplome de Grand Prix at the 1937 Paris International Exposition. In 1983, shortly before his death, he was named the architect laureate of Michigan.
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