When the General Motors Building opened its doors in 1923, Detroit gained not just a corporate headquarters but a monumental expression of the city’s industrial confidence. Designed by Albert Kahn and one of his most commanding works, it arose along West Grand...
Michigan’s most enduring landmarks are more than points on a map, they also trace the ambitions, anxieties and creative leaps that shaped the state across three centuries. That is why the Albert Kahn Legacy Foundation is especially honored that three Albert...
The Fisher Building has been characterized in many ways over the past century, but one title has endured above all: “Detroit’s largest art object.” Its gleaming marble arcades, gilded ceilings and monumental form continue to captivate visitors and scholars alike. Yet...
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...
