Lost building, Detroit, 1903 to 2022
Packard Plant
Demolished in 2022
- Opened
- 1903
- Torn down
- 2022
Designed by Albert Kahn
The Packard Plant stood in Detroit from 1903 until 2022. Here is what it was, who made it and where to find the spot today.
Then and now
What stands there now
Packard Plant Administrative Building Historic Site
Building
Detroit's Packard Plant, designed by Albert Kahn, stood on this spot for 119 years. Today Packard Plant Administrative Building Historic Site stands in its place.
- 1903 Opens Packard Plant
- 1999 Closes Packard Plant
- 2022 Comes down Packard Plant
- 2026 Today Packard Plant Administrative Building Historic Site
How we know what stands there
- OpenStreetMap Packard Plant Administrative Building Historic Site, building at the map point
Checked October 25, 2026. We never guess: a site no source speaks for shows no answer.
More photos of Packard Plant
What is there now
Packard Plant Administrative Building Historic Site
- Today Building Source: OpenStreetMap
- Packard Plant came down Source: Historic Detroit
We checked Wikidata, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Rebuild Detroit's landmark records and the county parcel records on October 25, 2026.
The story
The Packard Plant went up in 1903, during the boom years when the auto industry turned Detroit into one of the fastest growing cities in America.
Albert Kahn drew the plans.
It is gone now, demolished in 2022, and the map pin below marks where it stood.
Timeline
- 1903 Built Designed by Albert Kahn
- 1999 Closed
- 2022 Demolished
- 2026 Today 4 years since it came down
Where it is
1580 E. Grand Blvd.
On this map
- 1 Packard Plant This place
- 2 Hupp Motor Car Co. 0.5 mi
- 3 Cathedral of St. Anthony 0.5 mi
- 4 Kettering High School 0.6 mi
- 5 M.M. Rose School 0.6 mi
- 6 St. Hyacinth Roman Catholic Church 0.7 mi
- 7 Eastown Theatre 0.8 mi
- 8 All Saints Russian Orthodox Cathedral 0.8 mi
- 9 St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church 0.8 mi
Street map from OpenStreetMap contributors
Who made it
Architect
Albert KahnAmerican architect, 1869 to 1942. Designed the General Motors Building (1922) and 114 more in Metro Detroit
Also by Albert Kahn
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Around the block
- Hupp Motor Car Co. Building, built 1912, by E.R. Dunlap, demolished 1980 0.5 mi
- Cathedral of St. Anthony House of worship, built 1902, Romanesque, by John Donaldson 0.5 mi
- Kettering High School School, built 1965, by Roger Margerum 0.6 mi
- M.M. Rose School School, built 1898, by Malcomson & Higginbotham 0.6 mi
- St. Hyacinth Roman Catholic Church House of worship, built 1922, Romanesque Revival, by Donaldson & Meier 0.7 mi
- Eastown Theatre Theater, built 1931, Neo-Renaissance, by V.J. Waier, demolished 2015 0.8 mi
- All Saints Russian Orthodox Cathedral House of worship, built 1900, Romanesque Revival, by Wells D. Butterfield 0.8 mi
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St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church
House of worship, built 1923, Late 19th and 20th century revival, demolished 1992
Photo: Dorothy Kosteck, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
0.8 mi
Photo credits
Every photo on this page is used under its license, named here with its author and a link to the original.
- Boulevard view, Packard auto plant, Detroit, Mich. Photo: Detroit Publishing Company, no known restrictions, via Library of Congress
- The Packard Automotive Plant is a former automobile-manufacturing factory in Detroit, Michigan where luxury cars were..., 2015 Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- The Packard Automotive Plant is a former automobile-manufacturing factory in Detroit, Michigan where luxury cars were..., 2015 Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- The Packard Automotive Plant is a former automobile-manufacturing factory in Detroit, Michigan where luxury cars were..., 2015 Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- The Packard Automotive Plant is a former automobile-manufacturing factory in Detroit, Michigan where luxury cars were..., 2015 Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sources
Facts only, gathered from these sources. The story above is written by Rebuild Detroit. Every photo names its author and license where it appears.