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The Herbert H. Dow House is an historic house located in the Dow Gardens of Midland, Michigan. Built in 1899, it was the home of Herbert H. Dow (b. 1866), founder of Dow Chemical Company, from then until his death in 1930. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976. [2] [3] The house is open for guided tours; admission is charged.
Herbert Henry Dow (February 26, 1866 – October 15, 1930) was an American chemical industrialist who founded the American multinational conglomerate Dow Chemical.A graduate of the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio, he was a prolific inventor of chemical processes, compounds, and products, notably bromine extraction from sea water, and was a successful businessman.
Alden B. Dow (April 10, 1904 – August 20, 1983), an architect based in Midland, Michigan, was renowned for his contributions to the Michigan Modern style.Beginning in the 1930s, he designed more than 70 residences and dozens of churches, schools, civic and art centers, and commercial buildings during his 30+ year career.
Founder Herbert Henry Dow Bromine. Dow was founded in 1897 by chemist Herbert Henry Dow, who invented a new method of extracting the bromine that was trapped underground in brine at Midland, Michigan. [10] The company originally sold only bleach and potassium bromide, achieving a bleach output of 72 tons a day in 1902. [11]
Electrolytic production of bromine (also known as the Dow process) by Herbert Henry Dow in 1891 at the Evens Mill in Midland, Michigan [15] The Hall-Héroult process for production of aluminum by electrochemistry, discovered by American chemist Charles Martin Hall in 1886 and independently the same year by French chemist Paul Héroult [16]
Hebard–Ford Summer House; Heman R. Goodrich House; Henry A. Chapin House; Henry Ford Square House; Henry W. Baker House; Herbert H. Dow House; Herman and Hattie (Ely) Besser House; Herman Strasburg House; George and Martha Hitchcock House; Thomas H. Hoatson House; Bert and John Hobbins House; Honolulu House; George B. and Amanda Bradish ...
Herbert was heading from his mother’s house in Chicago to his father’s in Barrington. ... Herbert and Henry were arrested at about 8 a.m. and dragged before a justice of the peace, each ...
Wilsey was born Diane Dow Buchanan in 1944. [2] [3] Her father, Wiley T. Buchanan Jr., was the U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg and Austria and the White House Chief of Protocol during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower. [4] Her maternal great-grandfather, Herbert Henry Dow, was the founder of Dow Chemical. [5] [6]