Mary E. Dow House

01/20/2024

Les was a champion for the Mary Dow House overseeing many restoration projects.

With great sadness we report the death of Leslie D. Tincknell, for 30 years a member of the Saginaw Arts and Enrichment Commission and as an architect with WTA Architects redesigned its home at the Andersen Enrichment Center from its pool bath house beginnings.

Tincknell was a member of the Saginaw Area Watermedia Artists and had worked pro bono on numerous architectural projects for groups like the Roethke Home Museum.

He was 94.

https://www.fischerfuneral.com/m/obituaries/Leslie-Les-Tincknell/MemorialEvents

06/06/2022

If you’ve been waiting for a public tour, this Wednesday is your chance!

06/11/2021

Last year, through Biblioboard, the Local History and Genealogy department uploaded 10,000 images to our Saginaw History collection. If you haven’t checked them out yet, please do! There are some really wonderful images from the library’s holdings, and we’d love to show them off to more people. But we’d also like to see Saginaw history through more people’s eyes. To that end, we’re starting a crowdsourced collection of images. The public can upload images to our site (the process only takes a couple minutes), and then library staff will vet them for content and quality. By doing this, we’re hoping to expand our digital collection without having to house the physical copies. Community members still retain full ownership of their images and stories – submitting them to the library just allows us to showcase them online. Photos from the 1800s until yesterday, from anywhere in Saginaw County, about nearly any subject – we’re hoping for lots of photos and stories!

If you have photos taken in Saginaw County that you would be interested in sharing, we’d love to feature staff pictures for an “opening day” collection. Between now and June 18, go to https://saginawlibrary.librariesshare.com/saginawchronicles/ and submit your photos. We’ll get them updated and ready to go for our anticipated launch day of July 4, so we can show off the possibilities to the public. Thanks!

Do you have original photographs of the Saginaw area? Want to share your photos with others? The Local History & Genealogy Collection at the Public Libraries of Saginaw strives to preserve and protect the photographic history of Saginaw. PLOS is encouraging those in our community to share their orig...

05/14/2021

Vada Dow was a wife, mother, educator, and philanthropist but most of all, “she was a really lovely human who wanted good things for others,” says Craig McDo...

09/29/2019

A portion of 2018's Frances Goll Mills Trust monies awarded to First Congregational Church was allocated to the Mary E. Dow House to re-install clear blocks and panes of glass, replacing the wooden walls when the original glass blocks were removed, likely due to constant breakage and vandalism. Many thanks go to Leslie Tincknell for his time and expertise heading up this project! New curtains were also hung in the dining room area. Lights in the two bathrooms were installed and the bathroom restorations have been completed. Closet shelving has also been installed in the master bedroom. We thank everyone involved for their work during this phase of the restoration efforts!

03/09/2019

This photo also from the 100th Anniversary booklet was taken circa 1959, just prior to Suttner Hall being built to house the Christian Education wing, now in use by Major Chords For Minors.

03/09/2019

A photo from a recent look at the 100 Year Anniversary booklet of First Congregational Church (1857-1957) is a 1954 picture of Plymouth House. This photo was taken the year after Mary E. Dow passed away in 1953 and the house was purchased by the Church. It was used as a children's nursery, for Sunday school classes, as a meeting place, and later on as a training area for handicapped individuals to learn household skills enabling them to live on their own.

10/12/2018

A fall walk at Dow Gardens at dusk, an evening view of the Alden B. Dow house. What a beautiful evening!

06/03/2018

A peak at Alden B. Dow’s home in Midland as seen from Dow Gardens. A tour of The Pines, the home of Herbert and Grace A. Dow, revealed shelves built for Grace’s teapot collection that were the same style as the shelves in Mary Dow’s house. Of course, the shelves were the creation of Alden! If you visit any of the homes he designed, you will see many similarities depicting things he liked. The Pines is available for touring on the first Saturday of the month. Stop in the Visitor Center to purchase your tour ticket and enjoy a walk through the gardens. It’s so worth your time!

05/31/2017

Stop by Wednesday, June 7, 2017 for Jazz on Jefferson to pick up a rental informational form! Help us fund the restoration efforts of the Mary E. Dow House!