In 1903, the Ford Motor Company started in rented building on Detroit’s Mack Avenue, but it was later in 1904 that Henry Ford moved into his new purpose-built factory on Piquette Avenue, in the ...

The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant Museum is working to preserve Detroit’s automotive history. The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit’s Milwaukee Junction neighborhood is an integral part of the Motor ...

DETROIT (WLNS) — The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is the first factory-built and owned by the Ford Motor Company. It is one of the oldest car factories in America open to the public. The plant is ...

This weekend there’s a very special FREE event is taking place at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant. One hundred and sixteen years ago on September 29th the first Model T was produced at the Ford ...

Motor City Origins Tour When: April 5 from 5:30-7 p.m. Where: Ford Piquette Plant Museum (Detroit) What: A tour of Detroit Who: Tourists or people who want to know more about the city Why: The tour ...

Restoration efforts at the birthplace of the Model T are taking another leap forward, spurred by the redevelopment of the former Studebaker sales and service building next door. Power to the nonprofit ...

The volunteer group that saved the historic Ford Piquette Avenue Plant from demolition and turned it into a public museum has launched a capital campaign to protect and preserve the building and its ...

Compared with the Packard plant, which was in disastrous shape before demolition began in 2022, the old Ford plant on Piquette Avenue in Detroit is in excellent repair. Its tidy, late-Victorian facade ...

The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant Museum celebrates the day in 1908 when the first Model T was produced in Detroit. (Copyright 2024 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights ...

If you're interested in automobile history, then you can't skip the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant. This automobile factory turned museum was the Ford Motor Company's first purpose-built factory, ...

An early EV on display at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant. Credit: Ford Piquette Avenue Plant, Facebook No, Elon Musk did not invent the electric vehicle. Tinkerers have experimented with EVs since the ...

This month in Detroit, it's all about cars. For the first time in history, the North American International Auto Show will be hosted in the middle of September instead of cold, snowy January. And the ...