DETROIT: FORD PIQUETTE AVE. PLANT - BOSTON EDISON
Detroit is still known as the Motor City because of its history in car manufacturing and no story is more compelling than that of Henry Ford and the Model T. Well it al goes back to the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant.
The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is a former factory located within the Milwaukee Junction area of Detroit, Michigan, in the United States. Built in 1904, it was the second center of automobile production for the Ford Motor Company, after the Ford Mack Avenue Plant. At the Piquette Avenue Plant, the company created and first produced the Ford Model T, the car credited with initiating the mass use of automobiles in the United States. Prior to the Model T, several other car models were assembled at the factory. Early experiments using a moving assembly line to make cars were also conducted there. It was also the first factory where more than 100 cars were assembled in one day. While it was headquartered at the Piquette Avenue Plant, Ford Motor Company became the biggest U.S.-based automaker, and it would remain so until the mid-1920s. The factory was used by the company until 1910, when its car production activity was relocated to the new, bigger Highland Park Ford Plant.
Studebaker bought the factory in 1911, using it to assemble cars until 1933. The building was sold in 1936, going through a series of owners for the rest of the 20th century before becoming a museum in 2001. The Piquette Avenue Plant is the oldest purpose-built automotive factory building open to the public. The museum, which was visited by 18,000 people in 2016, has exhibits that primarily focus on the beginning of the United States automotive industry. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, became a Michigan State Historic Site in 2003, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006.
Detroit coal merchant Alexander Y. Malcomson, and a group of investors formed the Ford Motor Company on June 16, 1903, to assemble automobiles.[1]:10–11[2] The company's first car model, the original Ford Model A, began to be assembled that same month at the Ford Mack Avenue Plant, a rented wagon manufacturing shop in Detroit, Michigan.[1]:11–12 The company quickly outgrew this facility and, on April 10, 1904, bought a parcel of land off of Piquette Avenue in Detroit to accommodate a larger factory.[1]:12 The land was located in the Milwaukee Junction area, whose name is derived from a railroad junction within it.[1]:4, 12 The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant's construction started on May 10, 1904.[1]:12 The company moved into its new factory the following October.[1]:13
The Detroit-based architectural firm Field, Hinchman & Smith designed the Piquette Avenue Plant.[1]:9, 12 It is an example of late Victorian-style architecture and was modeled after New England textile mills.[1]:7[3] Designing factories based on this type of mill was common practice in the United States at the time.[4] The building is three stories high, 56 feet (17.1 m) wide, and 402 feet (122.5 m) long.[5][6] Its load-bearing exterior brick walls contain 355 windows, and its maple floors, supported by square oak beams and posts, cover 67,000 square feet (6,224.5 m2).[1]:7[7] The Piquette Avenue Plant contains two elevator-stairwell combinations, one located on its northwest corner and the other located on its southwest side.[1]:5, 7 Recalling a fire in March 1901 that destroyed the Olds Motor Works factory in Detroit, Henry Ford and the architects included a fire sprinkler system in the building's design, a rare feature for industrial buildings of the period.[8] This and several other original safety features in the factory, such as its firewalls, fire doors, and fire escapes, are still present.[1]:7[8] Water for the sprinkler system was supplied by a wooden water tank located on the building's roof.[1]:5 A brick powerhouse, measuring 36 feet (11.0 m) wide by 57 feet (17.4 m) long, was the original electricity provider for the factory, and was located near its northwest corner.[1]:4, 12–13 The water tank and powerhouse no longer exist.[1]:4–5
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Ford Piquette Ave. Plant, Detroit
The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant was built in 1904. It was the second center of automobile production for the Ford Motor Company, after the Ford Mack Avenue Plant. At the Piquette Avenue Plant, the company created and first produced the Ford Model T, the car credited with initiating the mass use of automobiles in the United States. Prior to the Model T, several other car models were assembled at the factory. Early experiments using a moving assembly line to make cars were also conducted there. It was also the first factory where more than 100 cars were assembled in one day. While it was headquartered at the Piquette Avenue Plant, Ford Motor Company became the biggest U.S.-based automaker, and it would remain so until the mid-1920s.
Calliope Player Grand Old Flag at Ford Piquette Avenue Plant
Listen to the song Grand Old Flag played at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan. Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is the original factory owned and built by the Ford Motor Company. Ford Piquette Avenue Plant was in operation from 1904-1910. Studebaker bought the factory from Ford and was located there from 1911-1933. Piquette is the birthplace of the Ford Model T, the car that put the World on Wheels and considered to be the most important car of the 1900's by many historians.
A calliope is a musical instrument that produces sound by sending a gas, originally steam or, more recently, compressed air, through large whistles—originally locomotive whistles. A calliope is typically very loud. Even some small calliopes are audible for miles. There is no way to vary tone or loudness.
The Model-T Automotive Heritage Complex, Inc., (doing business as) the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant, was organized in 2000 as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization for the purpose of preserving the Plant and keeping it from being demolished. Open year round as a Museum and education center, the plant now attracts visitors from around the world. It provides special programs and events for bus tours, families, and scores of people attending public and private events from car shows to weddings.
The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant (FPAP) is managed by a Board of Trustees and volunteer committees. The historic site is financially self-supported. It is not affiliated with Ford Motor Company or Ford Foundation.
The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant was dedicated as a MotorCities National Heritage Area site in 1996. The Plant was placed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2002 and listed as a Michigan State Historic Site in 2003. The FPAP site was deemed a U.S. Historic District Contributing Property in 2004 and declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 2006.
Five Reasons the Model T was Revolutionary
Automotive historian Bob Casey shares five key reasons that Henry Ford’s Model T was revolutionary when it was introduced in 1908. This video was created as part of an exhibition installed at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in September 2017. For more info visit:
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Featuring: Bob Casey
Directed by: Donald Harrison
Camera: Joey Ostrander
Editing & Audio: David Camlin
Project Managers: Mary Seelhorst & Jason Jay Stevens
Produced by: 7 Cylinders Studio [ in association with Flutter & Wow Museum Projects [
Extra Thanks: Nancy Darga, Norm Boltz, Barry Cogan, Aline Mauch
Extra Special Thanks: Steve Shotwell for the 1916 Model T in the driving sequence
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About the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant:
In 1997, the city of Detroit changed the zoning around the historic Ford plant. Detroit preservationist Jerald Mitchell suspected that bulldozers might not be far behind, so he got the Henry Ford Heritage Association involved to examine how they might save the building.
Three years later, a group of historians, preservationists, and Model T enthusiasts incorporated the Model T Automotive Heritage Complex as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and purchased the building. When we first opened to the public as an historic site we were called the T-plex. Today, we operate as the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant.
We are dedicated to preserving the building and providing a unique experience of Detroit’s history. The plant now attracts visitors from around the world, bus tours, families, and scores of people attending public and private events from car shows to weddings.
We’re managed by a board of trustees and volunteer committees. In 2013, the board hired the site’s first executive director, Nancy Darga, former director of the MotorCities National Heritage Area.
The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 2006. It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2002 and listed as a Michigan State Historic Site in 2003.
Ford Factories at Mack Avenue, Piquette and Highland Park Plant
Ford's first factory, the Mack Avenue Plant, was an old wagon manufacturing shop owned by Albert Strelow, who agreed to remodel the building, a one-story frame structure 50' wide and 250' long, and rent it to the Ford Motor Company for $75 a month. Ford began moving into the Mack Avenue Plant in April 1903, but did not begin assembling cars there until June, after the incorporation of the Ford Motor Company. The firm was officially launched with stock officially valued at $28,000, but the original investors put in only $19,500 at the start. Ford began with a labor force of only a dozen workers, who merely assembled components purchased from outside suppliers. Dodge Brothers (John and Horace Dodge) built the running gear, which consisted of the chassis, engine, transmission, drive shaft, and both axles. Ford bought tires, wheels, and bodies from three other firms. Ford was an assembler of cars, but not a manufacturer at this point. While other contemporary automobile manufacturers also bought many components from outside suppliers, pioneers such as Henry Leland at the Cadillac Motor Car Company manufactured their own engines and transmissions. Ford outgrew the Mack plant and built a new factory at Piquette avenue.
The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is a museum and former factory located at 461 Piquette Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, within the Piquette Avenue Industrial Historic District in Milwaukee Junction. It was the second home of Ford Motor Company automobile production and is best known as the birthplace of the Ford Model T. It is the oldest automotive factory building in the world open to the general public.[4] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002,[1] designated as a Michigan State Historic Site in 2003,[2] and designated as a National Historic Landmark in 2006
The Highland Park Ford Plant is a former factory located at 91 Manchester Avenue (at Woodward Avenue) in Highland Park, Michigan. The second production facility for the Model T automobile, it became a National Historic Landmark in 1978.
he Highland Park Ford Plant was a production plant for Ford Motor Company in the city of Highland Park, Michigan, which is surrounded by Detroit. The Highland Park Ford Plant was designed by Albert Kahn Associates in 1908 and was opened in 1910. Ford automotive production had previously taken place at the facility known as the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant.
The complex included offices, factories, a power plant and a foundry.[3] Over 120 acres in size the Highland Park Plant was the largest manufacturing facility in the world at the time of its opening. Because of its spacious design, it set the precedent for many factories and production plants built thereafter.
On 7 October 1913, the Highland Park Ford Plant became the first automobile production facility in the world to implement the moving assembly line.[4] The new assembly line improved production time of the Model T from 728 to 93 minutes.[5] The Highland Parks assembly line lowered the price of the Model T from $700 in 1910 to $350 in 1917 making it an affordable automobile for most Americans.[6] Ford offered nearly three times the wages paid at other unskilled manufacturing plants.[7]
In the late 1920s Ford moved automobile assembly to the River Rouge Plant complex in nearby Dearborn. Automotive trim manufacturing and tractor assembly continued at the Highland Park plant. The 1690 M4A3 Sherman tanks built by Ford from June, 1942 to September, 1943 were assembled in this factory as well.
As of 2011, it had been used by Ford Motor Company to store documents and for artifact storage for the Henry Ford Museum. A portion is also occupied by a Forman Mills clothing warehouse that opened in 2006.
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Henry Ford's Model T: History Tour, Piquette Plant & Highland Park Factory, Moving Assembly Line
Today on the show we explore the history of Ford’s Model T, from his Detroit Piquette Factory where the Model T was born, to his revolutionary Highland Park Factory where the Model T quickly grew into the most successful car the world.
The Highland Park Ford Factory was designed by Albert Kahn and was built in 1910 … at the time it was the biggest factory in the world with over 90 acres of enclosed factory space… and here’s the most remarkable part… this factory was engineered to make a MILLION cars per year!
In 1913 Ford started the moving assembly line and the time it took to build a Model T went from 728 minutes down to only 93 minutes and the cut the price in 1/2 to only $350 … that's just under $7,500 today.
Ford more than doubled the wages of his workers and paid them 3 times what other factories were paying. People say Ford helped kick-start the rise of the middle class.
By 1920 1/2 of all the new cars in America were Model Ts and at one point this factory was making more than 9,000 cars per day.
In the late 20s, Ford outgrew this Highland Park factory and built an even bigger factory in River Rouge … which is still being used today…
Just look at how busy this is…
Just look at all these people … the scale of what Ford was able to do here is incredible!
What an amazing history!
During WW2 the highland park factory built the Sherman Tank - which was the most widely used medium tank in WW2 - used by the US and Western allies.
Today, unfortunately, most of the highland park factory has been demolished but the remaining 2 buildings are supposed to be turned into a Tech Learning Canter and a Museum …
We really can’t wait to see that when it happens!
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Ford Piquette Wedding Promo
The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is a museum and former factory located at 461 Piquette Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, within the Piquette Avenue Industrial Historic District in Milwaukee Junction.
Scott Joplin The Entertainer Ragtime Music Played on Calliope at Ford Piquette Avenue Plant
Listen to the song The Entertainer by Scott Joplin played at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan. Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is the original factory owned and built by the Ford Motor Company. Ford Piquette Avenue Plant was in operation from 1904-1910. Studebaker bought the factory from Ford and was located there from 1911-1933. Piquette is the birthplace of the Ford Model T, the car that put the World on Wheels and considered to be the most important car of the 1900's by many historians.
A calliope is a musical instrument that produces sound by sending a gas, originally steam or, more recently, compressed air, through large whistles—originally locomotive whistles. A calliope is typically very loud. Even some small calliopes are audible for miles. There is no way to vary tone or loudness.
Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the King of Ragtime. During his brief career, he wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas.
The Model-T Automotive Heritage Complex, Inc., (doing business as) the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant, was organized in 2000 as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization for the purpose of preserving the Plant and keeping it from being demolished. Open year round as a Museum and education center, the plant now attracts visitors from around the world. It provides special programs and events for bus tours, families, and scores of people attending public and private events from car shows to weddings.
The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant (FPAP) is managed by a Board of Trustees and volunteer committees. The historic site is financially self-supported. It is not affiliated with Ford Motor Company or Ford Foundation.
The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant was dedicated as a MotorCities National Heritage Area site in 1996. The Plant was placed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2002 and listed as a Michigan State Historic Site in 2003. The FPAP site was deemed a U.S. Historic District Contributing Property in 2004 and declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 2006.
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The Ford Highland Park plant is one of the most historically significant buildings in the state of Michigan, likely the country and some argue the world, for what happened in this building changed our country and is a true national treasure. It's the aim of the Woodward Avenue Action Association to restore the interior of the assembly plant to a condition where public tours can be conducted. It is also our hope to raise the funds necessary to restore the administrative building on Woodward to become a visitor's center. Our vision is grand. However, the Highland Park Ford plant deserves no less.
Richard Rubens of Ford Piquette Plant
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He talks about how Henry Ford came to be a giant in the automotive industry and what the building means to the world in terms of manufacturing.
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The birthplace of the iconic Ford Model T automobile, the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan, still stands today, and is considered one of the most significant automotive heritage sites i...
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Ford, a known pacifist, opposed America’s entry into World War II. Nevertheless, he agreed to build airplane engines for the British government. In May 1940, he stated: ‘If it became necessary, the Ford Motor Company could, with the counsel of men like [Charles] Lindbergh and [Eddie] Rickenbacker, under our own supervision and without meddling by government agencies, swing into the production of a thousand airplanes of standard design a day.’
It was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that inspired Ford to begin a tremendous, all-out manufacturing effort. To the west of Dearborn, the giant Willow Run plant was built to produce B-24 Liberator bombers on an assembly line that was a mile long. The first bomber rolled off the line in May 1942, beginning the effective production of several hundred aircraft a month. Bombers were produced at the rate of one plane per hour, thereby confounding Ford’s critics, who had called the plant undertaking ‘Willit Run.’ By the end of the war, Ford had built 86,865 complete aircraft, plus 57,851 airplane engines, thousands of engine superchargers and generators, and 4,291 military gliders.
Ford also turned out tanks, armored cars, jeeps and engines for robot bombs. In the midst of the heaviest production during the war years, Ford returned to his post as chief executive of the Ford Motor Company when Edsel, who had taken over for his father, died in 1943.
Months earlier, Ford’s plants in Great Britain and Canada had joined the production efforts of the United States and poured forth everything from mobile canteens to four-wheel-drive trucks and autos, grenades, bombs and engine-powered landing craft. The U.S. plants were the prime movers in the development of the famous Willys-originated jeep.