The Challenges of Adaptive Reuse: Charlotte’s Camp North End Remains a Work in Progress

The century‑old Packard Proving Grounds in Shelby Township stands today as an extraordinary example of historic preservation and adaptive reuse. It’s also a vivid reminder of what Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act makes possible when it is allowed to function as intended. The Foundation is pleased to…

The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that a 97‑unit apartment building has opened at Highland Bridge, the original site of the Albert Kahn‑designed Twin Cities Assembly Plant. Known as The Albert, the new four-story building incorporates preserved limestone façade sections and historic friezes from the original Ford plant, some weighing…

Henry Ford’s Fordlandia experiment remains one of the most astonishing and improbable chapters in industrial history: a Midwestern company town carved into the Amazon rainforest in the late 1920s. A recent report from TV station WOOD/NBC/Grand Rapids revisits this bold venture, exploring Ford’s attempt to secure his own rubber supply…

Albert Kahn's Angell Hall on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor.

In June 1942, Time magazine published a 1,300‑word profile of Albert Kahn. World War II was the big story and it dominated nearly every page of the publication. The issue’s cover story examined top German General Franz Halder’s plans for the second year of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet…