One of Detroit’s newest preservation success stories stands on the shoulders of some of the city’s most consequential innovators. The former Cadillac Motor Company assembly plant on Amsterdam Street was designed in 1905 by architect George D. Mason in collaboration...
For more than a century, Ford Motor Company has expressed its identity not only through the vehicles it builds, but through the buildings that shaped its culture, its leadership and its global ambitions. No architect influenced that story more profoundly than Albert...
A recent fire at Wayne State University’s Maccabees Building was contained quickly, but the public reaction revealed something deeper: Detroiters have a deep affection for the city’s legacy buildings. As Dan Austin of HistoricDetroit.org noted in the immediate...
WDET’s “The Metro” recently reported on Albert Kahn’s little-known role as a humanitarian when he aided and sponsored a Swiss-Jewish family fleeing war torn Europe and Nazi aggression during WWII. Tia Graham, host of The Metro, interviewed...
Detroit’s architectural story is richer because of Dan Austin. Through his HistoricDetroit.org website, he has documented more than 1,000 area buildings, including over 100 designed by Albert Kahn. Dan explains the past with accuracy, depth and passion that makes his...
By John Gallagher – For the Albert Kahn Legacy Foundation. Albert Kahn was still a young man when he designed Detroit’s historic Packard Plant at the dawn of the 20th century. The sprawling industrial site that emerged from Kahn’s drawing table did more than establish...
