Milwaukee Junction Walking Tour

Join the Albert Kahn Legacy Foundation as we explore Motor City’s historically significant Milwaukee Junction neighborhood, an area once considered the “cradle of the Detroit auto industry.”

The walking tour will provide participants with a unique opportunity to visualize and better understand the area’s rich architectural and industrial history, while experiencing the energy of the repurposed and vibrant Milwaukee Junction neighborhood of today.

Noted Detroit Historian Jacob Jones will conduct the walking tour. Jones will provide detailed background information for each structure and a general commentary for the tour.

Tracing the evolution of factory architecture — from timber and brick to steel and concrete — the tour stops at a wide variety of structures designed or inspired by Kahn.

Highlights of the tour include:

Piquette Flats (formerly Studebaker Service Building)
Ford Piquette Avenue Plant (where Henry Ford first experimented w/ assembly line production of the Model T)
Chroma Building (112-year-old former storage facility transformed into a hub for design, creativity, and community engagement)
Fisher Lofts (a remarkable industrial-to-residential conversion of a historic Fisher Body factory)