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Summary
Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI
Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is the last large reinforced concrete automobile plant left in the Detroit area. The Dodge factory led to the growth of the community of Hamtramck.
Survey number: HAER MI-6
Building/structure dates: 1910- 1955 Initial Construction
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Date
1920 - 1955
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Albert Kahn Associates
Smith,Hinchman & Grylls
Dodge, John F
Dodge, Horace E
Location
Hamtramck (Mich.)
,
42.39282, -83.04964
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html