Charles N. Agree
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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.
[edit] Agree-designed buildings
- Belcrest Hotel in Detroit, Michigan
- Beverly Theatre in Detroit, Michigan
- Duke Theatre in Oak Park, Michigan
- Flint Tavern Hotel, Flint, Michigan
- Grande Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan
- Harpos Concert Theatre in Detroit, Michigan
- Highland Lodge Apartment Building, Stamford CT
- 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
[edit] 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.
