In 2006, the Ford Motor Co. announced plans to close the Highland Park plant. A white Ford Ranger that rolled off the assembly line on Dec. 16, 2011, was the last car produced at the 86-year-old ...

Known as the Ford Highland Park plant, the place where the automobile as we know it has become the focus of the Woodward Avenue Action Association, who set out to list the plant in the This Place ...

The Highland Park Ford Plant, designed by Albert Kahn in 1910, is featured at No. 5 on a "10 Buildings that Changed America" special that will be broadcast next month.

The mayor and local council member will mark the next step in redeveloping the historic automobile-manufacturing site.

In 1907, Henry Ford bought 160 acres of land for what would be his Highland Park Ford Plant. The first moving assembly line started a few years later at the plant.

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1914: The moving assembly line at Highland Park produces 34,858 Model Ts — an 82% increase from Piquette’s output. 1917: Ford introduces a truck, the Model TT, based on the Model T. 1927: The ...

HIGHLAND PARK (WWJ) - The birthplace of the moving assembly line has been named one of the top most influential buildings in the country. The historic Highland Park Ford Plant, designed by Albert ...

The power plant, left, Administration Building, center and other buildings of Ford's Highland Park plant, birthplace of automotive mass production and the Model T, as they looked two decades ago.

The Ford motor company is one of the most prominent businesses in the American automotive industry today. Typically you might expect the next sentence to read something like what it all wasn’t always ...

1903: Henry Ford creates Ford Motor Co. 1904: Ford builds the Piquette Avenue Plant in the Detroit neighborhood of Milwaukee Junction, just east of Woodward Avenue. The plant was made of brick and ...