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Bowd–Munson Company

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Bowd–Munson Company was an architectural firm in Lansing, Michigan. The firm was a partnership between Edwyn A. Bowd and Orlie Munson.[1]

Bowd was born at Cheltenham, England, on November 11, 1865.[2][3] He designed the Lewis Cass Building. He also designed many buildings at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing beginning with Old Botany[2] in 1892 and continuing on his own and at the firm with Marshall Hall, Agriculture Hall, Giltner Hall (1913 portion), IM Recreative Sports Circle, and Spartan Stadium. The firm designed most of the buildings on the MSU campus until 1940 often in Collegiate Gothic style.[1][4]

Masonic Temple in Lansing, now the Main Building for Cooley Law School
Ingham County Courthouse in Mason, Michigan

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  1. ^ a b Artists. Bowdartmuseum.msu.edu Archived 2015-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b Forsyth, Kevin S. (2023). "M.A.C. Architects". A Brief History of East Lansing, Michigan. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  3. ^ a b c d e https://lansingcitypulse.com/print-article-5646-permanent.html[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "New Deal Sites". Living New Deal. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  5. ^ a b NRHP database
  6. ^ a b c "Bowd-Munson Company | Companies". Emporis. Archived from the original on June 3, 2022. Retrieved 2022-05-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  7. ^ "Ionia Armory Community Center (Ionia Armory)". sah-archipedia.org. Society of Architectural Historians. 17 July 2018. Retrieved July 11, 2020.