The Earl Stein House is a single-family home located at 209 Revere Street in

Midland, Michigan Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Michigan. The city's population was 42,547 as of the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Midland Micropolitan Statistical Area, part of the larger Saginaw-Midland-Bay City Comb ...

. It was listed on the

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in 1989. The house is significant as the first house designed through the

Taliesin Fellowship The School of Architecture is a private architecture school in Paradise Valley, Arizona. It was founded in 1986 as an accredited school by surviving members of the Taliesin Fellowship. The school offers a Master of Architecture program that focus ...

program, established by

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in 1933.

History

In early 1933, Earl Stein hired architect

Alden B. Dow Alden B. Dow (April 10, 1904 – August 20, 1983) 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 1930s to the 1960s, he designed more than ...

to design this house. Dow created some preliminary sketches, and brought them with him to start a fellowship at Taliesin with Frank Lloyd Wright. Under Wright's tutelage, Dow reworked the design multiple times. Dow completed the design later in 1933, and construction began in October. The house was completed in 1934. In the 1970s, bedrooms were added to the house in accordance with a plan by Dow.

Description

The Earl Stein House is a low brick

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house with an L-shaped floor plan. The house has a low-pitched copper clad hip roof, accentuated with a massive chimney. A long narrow loggia leading to the main entryway between the wings. The house has an upper level, and a basement that opens into the rear yard.

References

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