Detroit Architect

Charles A. Platt1861–1933

Charles A. Platt was a New York architect and landscape designer working in the Italian Renaissance manner. His Grosse Pointe commissions — the Russell Alger and Henry Stephens houses, the Yondotega Club fountain, the Grosse Pointe War Memorial — bring east-coast country-house elegance to the lakeshore.

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