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Ford Piquette Avenue Plant

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Ford Piquette Avenue Plant

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. 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.[3] It is approximately 2 miles west of the original Dodge Brothers factory in neighboring Hamtramck.

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