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He began his firm in 1917, after he graduated from the Detroit Young Men's Christian Association
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Charles Nathanial Agree
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Agree moved to Detroit in 1909, at the age of 12. 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 an office on McNichols Road in Detroit and then a suburban office in Bloomfield Hills. 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.
All buildings are located in Detroit, unless otherwise indicated. Whittier Hotel, 1921-1927
Belcrest 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
Transport-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)
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
Jewish Community Center, West Bloomfield, Michigan
Oakland Mall, Troy, Michigan
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.
