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. His first major commission was 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. 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 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 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 References Charles N. Agree, Buffalo As An Architectural Museum, link Further reading 1897