Redstone, Louis G. 1903-

Born in Grodno, Poland on March 16, 1903, Louis Redstone (born Leon Rotenstein) left home at the age of seventeen to immigrate to Palestine. As a member of the Zionist Pioneer Youth Group, he spent three years planting trees and learning the construction trade. He came to Detroit in the 1920s, where his brother Sol was already living, and got a job as a bricklayer on Detroit's Buhl Building. Redstone enrolled in the University of Michigan School of Architecture, graduating in 1929. He worked for a time for Albert Kahn Associates, but returned to Palestine in 1933 where he opened his first architecture practice in Tel Aviv, designing apartments. In 1937 he returned to Detroit and formed his own company, Louis G. Redstone & Associates. Redstone later attended Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he graduated with an advanced degree in urban planning. He studied under the direction of noted Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen, for whom he named his youngest son. Redstone married Ruth Rosenbaum, a teacher and social worker from New York, in June 1939. They had two sons, Daniel and Eliel, both of whom received a degree in architecture from U of M. Daniel joined his father's firm; Eliel formed his own architectural firm in San Francisco. Louis Redstone died in Detroit on March 30, 2002, at the age of ninety-nine.

Detroit, Mich., area architect.