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Charles Nathanial Agree (April 18, 1897 – March 10, 1982) was an Americanarchitect inDetroit,Michigan.
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.[1] His first major commission was in 1921 to build theWhittier Hotel near the bank of theDetroit 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 sculptorCorrado Parducci.
As architecture changed by the 1960s, so did Agree's commissions. He began designing many modern-style malls. In addition to the office in theBook Tower, Agree's firm later opened an office on McNichols Road in Detroit and then a suburban office inBloomfield Hills.
Several Agree-designed buildings have been plundered by architectural scavengers. These include theVanity Ballroom, where several Mayan-Deco panels were torn off, and theGrande Ballroom, which brought rock bandMC5 into fame, which has sat empty since closing in 1972.
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