Packard Motor Car Company
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N 42° 22.692 W 083° 01.699
17T E 333014 N 4693761
The marker is missing, but the building is located on the northwest side of Grand Boulevard East. Creative parking required.
Waymark Code: WM13AH
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 01/01/2007
Views: 30
The Packard Motor Car Company, which built Detroit's first, and for many years most prestigious, luxury cars, produced over 1.5 million vehicles on this site from 1903 to 1954. The factory complex, designed by Albert Kahn, included the city's first use of reinforced concrete for industrial construction. At its opening, it was considered the most modern automobile manufacturing facility in the world. In it skilled craftsmen practiced over eighty trades.
Parking nearby?: yes
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website: [Web Link]
Registered Site #: State Site #546
Historical Date: Not listed
Historical Name: Not listed
Description: Not listed
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