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Lost building, West Side Industrial, 1882 to 1929

Peninsular Stove Co.

Demolished in 1929

A drawing of Peninsular Stove Co. from its recorded size and style. No photo we may share has turned up yet.
Opened
1882
Torn down
1929

Designed by Mason & Rice

Peninsular Stove Co. stood in West Side Industrial from 1882 until 1929. Here is what it was, who made it and where to find the spot today.

On the map

Then and now

What stands there now

Today

The spot today, from the street Photo: Street View, 2026

Main Post Office

Post office

Detroit's Peninsular Stove Co., designed by Mason & Rice, stood on this spot for 47 years. Today Main Post Office stands in its place.

Walk the block on the map
  1. 1882 Opens Peninsular Stove Co.
  2. 1928 Closes Peninsular Stove Co.
  3. 1929 Comes down Peninsular Stove Co.
  4. 2026 Today Main Post Office
How we know what stands there
  • OpenStreetMap Main Post Office, post office at the map point

Checked October 25, 2026. We never guess: a site no source speaks for shows no answer.

What is there now

Main Post Office

  • Today Post office Source: OpenStreetMap
  • Peninsular Stove Co. came down Source: Historic Detroit
  • Sold Source: County parcel records

Building permits at this address

4 permits since May 2025

$39,000 in declared work (2 of 4 name a figure) Newest: Add additional occupancy or use permit, September 21, 2026

  1. Add additional occupancy or use permit

    Add Additional Occupancy/Use of Carry-Out Restaurant & alterations to Code per plans. Subject to Field... Read all

    Add Additional Occupancy/Use of Carry-Out Restaurant & alterations to Code per plans. Subject to Field Approval.

    $15,000

  2. Electrical permit

    2 led strip for 2 pumping machine and installing led strip for price sign and 1 for canopy sign

  3. Electrical permit

    Install 100 amp panel and seven circuits

  4. Alteration permit

    Exterior facade renovations per provided plans. (Subject to field approval.)

    $24,000

Source: City and county building permits

See then and now

We checked Wikidata, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Rebuild Detroit's landmark records and the county parcel records on October 25, 2026.

The story

By Victoria Jackson, Editor in Chief Updated

In 1882, as Detroit's lumber, stove and shipbuilding money went into brick and stone, Peninsular Stove Co. went up in West Side Industrial.

Mason & Rice drew the plans.

It is gone now, demolished in 1929, and the map pin below marks where it stood.

Timeline

  1. 1882 Built Designed by Mason & Rice
  2. 1928 Closed
  3. 1929 Demolished
  4. 2025 Alteration permit May 6, 2025
  5. 2025 Sold July 8, 2025
  6. 2026 3 building permits $15,000 in declared work, the latest September 21
  7. 2026 Today 97 years since it came down

Where it is

1500 W. Fort St.

On this map

  1. Peninsular Stove Co. This place
  2. Thunderbird Motel 110 ft
  3. Puritan Machine Co. 0.2 mi
  4. The Assembly 0.2 mi
  5. John K. King Books Building 0.3 mi
  6. Edson, Moore and Company Building 0.3 mi
  7. Lee, Cady & Smart Building 0.3 mi
  8. Riverfront Condominiums Detroit 0.3 mi
  9. Most Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church 0.3 mi

Street map from OpenStreetMap contributors

Who made it

Thompson Home, by Mason & Rice Thompson Home, by Mason & Rice. Photo: Andrew Jameson at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Architect

Mason & Rice

Architecture firm. Designed Trinity Episcopal Church (1893) and 11 more in Metro Detroit

Also by Mason & Rice

More from Detroit in the 1880s

Around the block

It is in West Side Industrial. See the neighborhood's homes, pros and story.

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.