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Alden B. Dow April 10, — August 20, was an American architect based in Midland, Michigan , and known for his contributions to the style of Michigan Modern. During a career that spanned from the s to the s, he designed more than 70 residences and dozens of churches, schools, civic and art centers, and commercial buildings. Dow Memorial Library named in honor of his mother are among numerous examples of his work located in his hometown of Midland, Michigan.

Dow, Dow is known for his prolific architectural designs. Dow attended the Midland Public Schools through high school.

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He attended the University of Michigan to study engineering in preparation to join his father's chemical manufacturing company. After three years, Dow transferred as a student of architecture at Columbia University , where he graduated in That year he married Vada Bennett, also of Midland. After working for a year and a half with the architectural firm of Frantz and Spence in nearby Saginaw , he and Vada studied with architect Frank Lloyd Wright at his Taliesin studio in Spring Green, Wisconsin , for the summer in Following his brief "a few months" apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright, Dow opened his own studio in in Midland.