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Charles Nathanial Agree (April 18, 1897 – March
10, 1982) was an architect who held his practice in Detroit, Michigan.
Agree moved to Detroit in
1909 at the age of 12. He began his firm, Charles N. Agree Inc., in
1917, after he graduated from the Detroit Y.M.C.A Technical School.
His first major commission came in 1921 to build the Whittier Hotel
near the bank of the Detroit River. He later went on to design
many office buildings, theaters, and ballrooms. Agree was one of
the Detroit architects of the 1920s and 1930s who utilized the
services of architectural sculptor Corrado Parducci .
As the architecture changed by the 1960s, so did
Agree's commissions. He began designing many modern style malls. In
addition to the office in the Book Tower, Agree's firm later opened a
suburban office in Bloomfield Hills
where Agree later lived.
Several Agree designed buildings have been victimized by
architectural scavengers. These include the Vanity Ballroom, where
several Mayan-Deco panels were torn off, and the Grande Ballroom
which brought rock band MC5 into
fame, which has sat empty since closing in 1972.
Agree-designed buildings
- Belcrest
Hotel in Detroit, Michigan
- Beverly Theatre in Detroit,
Michigan
- Duke Theatre in Oak Park, Michigan, which was named
after Duke
Ellington
- Flint Tavern Hotel, Flint, Michigan
- Grande
Ballroom in Detroit,
Michigan
- Harpos Concert Theatre in Detroit,
Michigan
- Highland Lodge Apartment Building in Stamford, Connecticut
- Hollywood Theater in Detroit,
Michigan
- Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield, Michigan
- Lincoln Theatre (Remodeling) in Lincoln Park, Michigan
- Palmer Park Theatre in Detroit,
Michigan
- Park Theatre (Remodeling) in Lincoln Park, Michigan
- Royal Theatre in Detroit,
Michigan
- Southgate Shopping Center in
Southgate, Michigan
- Showcase Cinemas Dearborn in Dearborn, Michigan
- Trans-Lux Krim in Detroit,
Michigan
- Trenton Theatre in Trenton, Michigan
- Vanity Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan
- Westown Theater
- Woods 6 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan
- Whittier
Hotel in Detroit, Michigan
- Wilshire Residential Hotel, Detroit,
Michigan
References and further
reading
- Hill, Eric J. and John Gallagher (2002).
AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to
Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN
0-8143-3120-3.
- Meyer, Katherine Mattingly and
Martin C.P. McElroy with Introduction by W. Hawkins Ferry, Hon
A.I.A. (1980). Detroit Architecture A.I.A. Guide Revised
Edition. Wayne State University Press. ISBN
0-8143-1651-4.
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