Charles N. Agree

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Charles Nathanial Agree (April 18, 1897 – March 10, 1982) was an American architect in Detroit, Michigan.

Biography

Agree moved to Detroit in 1909 at the age of 12. He opened his firm in 1917 after graduating from the Detroit Y.M.C.A. Technical School.

Several Agree-designed buildings have been plundered 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

All buildings are located in Detroit, unless otherwise indicated.

• Whittier Hotel
  , 1921–1927
• The Sovereign Apartments (Buffalo, New York), 1923 (with Lewis and Hill Architects of Buffalo, New York)
• The Stratford Arms (Buffalo, New York), 1924 (with Lewis and Hill Architects of Buffalo, New York)
• Pilgrim and Puritan Apartment Complex, 1924
• Belcrest Apartments (previously Belcrest Hotel), 1926
• Seville Apartment Hotel, 1926
• Hollywood Theater, 1927 (with Graven & Mayger)
• Grande Ballroom, 1928
• Vanity Ballroom, 1929
• Lincoln Theatre, Lincoln Park, Michigan, 1936 (remodeling)
• Westown Theater, 1936
• Beverly Theatre, 1937
• Palmer Park Theatre, 1937
• Harpos Concert Theatre, 1939
• Royal Theatre, 1940
• Trans-Lux Krim, 1941
• Showcase Cinemas Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan, 1941
• Duke Theatre, Oak Park, Michigan, named after Duke Ellington, 1941–1947
• Park Theatre, Lincoln Park, Michigan, 1942 (remodeling)
• Nadell Furs Building, 1944^[2]
• Woods 6 Theater, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, 1948
• Southgate Shopping Center, Southgate, Michigan, 1957
• Flint Tavern Hotel, Flint, Michigan
• Highland Lodge Apartment Building, Stamford, Connecticut
• Detroit Zoo Holden Reptile House, Royal Oak, Michigan

The Mall a.k.a The Pontiac Mall [Waterford Township, Michigan] 1962

• Jewish Community Center,
  West Bloomfield, Michigan
• Oakland Mall, Troy, Michigan 1968
• Panama City Mall, Panama City, Florida
• Trenton Village Theatre, Trenton, Michigan
• Wabeek Building, Birmingham, Michigan (this is credited to Agree, but all records indicate it was designed by Albert Kahn in 1928)
• Wilshire Residential Hotel

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