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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