Ford Motor Company, 900 S. Broadway

The original plant building was designed by John Graham and built in 1913, and there is a 1916 addition designed by famed industrial architect Albert Kahn. This was Ford’s first manufacturing facility west of the Mississippi River. Model-T Trucks were assembled there until WW I when the plant temporarily closed. The plant reopened in 1923, producing 150-160 cars a day, and employing many people in the surrounding neighborhoods. The Gates Rubber Company owned the building from 1945 to 1995 and it is currently used as offices.