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Nathan Johnson

1926–2021

United States

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Nathan Johnson (1926–2021), was an American modernist architect in Detroit, Michigan. He designed some of the most iconic 1960s churches in Detroit, and it is estimated at forty churches. He also designed public housing, campuses and dorms for churches and schools, single-family residential work and apartment towers.

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