About the Wallace Frost Foundation
Wallace Frost was a very versitile and ambitious 20th century architect who worked mostly in the state of Michigan. Wallace Frost died at the age of 69 on June 24, 1962. His son Jon moved to Colorado in the 1950's and passed away on May 31, 2002. His family donated the Wallace Frost papers to the Bentley Library at the University of Michigan. The city of Birmingham, Michigan has the greatest concentration of homes but he built homes throughout Michigan including Grosse Point, Ann Arbor, Milford, Lansing, and Bloomfield Hills.
Wallace Frost moved to California in the 1930's and developed a modern style while there and thereafter designed in a contemporary style. He designed a home for his son Jon in Colorado in this new contemporary style. (See Frost Ranch in the Table of Works)
While researching my family home, one of his Birmingham homes also done in the contemporary style, I contacted the Bentley library to research a different Frost home only to find out the Wallace Frost papers only included his later homes, and his earlier homes were missing due to a fire in his studio. In 2021, a realtor in the city of Birmingham stated in a listing that the number of Frost homes had dwindled down to 17 perhaps to convey a sense of rarity but that was not true, approximately 40 of them are still in existance.What is missing is a complete list of works by the architect. This will be the mission of this website, to compile a List of Works by Wallace Frost, not just in Birmingham, but throughout the US including homes that were destroyed such as 1099 Orchard Ridge Road in Bloomfield Hills that was designed for my grandparents. The process of landmarking the Frost homes is in progress at the discretion of each owner to avoid outcomes like this in the future in order to preserve the legacy of Wallace Frost.