The Michigan State Historic Preservation Office of the Michigan Strategic Fund has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Fund Underrepresented Communities Grant program to support documentation and preservation of the work of Detroit-based modernist architect Nathan Johnson.
The announcement was made by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and marks a significant step toward formally recognizing Johnson’s contributions to Michigan’s architectural and cultural history.
The grant will fund the hiring of a preservation consultant to prepare a comprehensive study of Johnson’s career and body of work. The study will include a detailed survey of buildings designed by Johnson as well as the development of a historic context that places his work within the broader narrative of twentieth-century architecture in Detroit and the surrounding metropolitan area…