The company decided to keep its headquarters within the Plymouth Road plant. In 1954, Nash-Kelvinator would merge again, this time with Hudson Motors, forming the American Motors Corporation. It has been said that the airfield was the smallest in the country. By 1944, after some production delays due to design changes, 262 helicopters had been finished at the plant and tested in a small airfield out back. The company reached out to Nash-Kelvinator and contracted them to do the final assembly work at the Plymouth Road plant. During the war, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation was tasked with building helicopters for the army, but was overwhelmed during production and unable to satisfy demand. This addition brought the total square footage of the plant to 1.46 million on 57 acres, and also made it possible to increase production during World War II. The Plymouth Road factory was chosen as the company’s headquarters, which would be expanded by an addition made in 1940.
Amedeo Leoni was hired to design the new plant, which included an office complex at the front of the building, with a three-story factory area complete with a power plant at the back.Īfter 10 more years of growth, the company further expanded and merged with automaker Nash Motors, becoming Nash-Kelvinator. An area along Plymouth Road on the northwest side of Detroit was chosen, and construction soon began. As operations continued to grow, the need for a new factory arose. They were then able to expand, opening new offices in Europe. With the introduction of the very first fully self-contained refrigeration system in 1925, the company took off. The company specialized in manufacturing commercially available household refrigeration appliances. The Kelvinator corporation was established in 1916 in Detroit by engineer Nathaniel Wales. While AMC may have been the last to occupy the massive 1.5 million-square-foot space, its life started when it was built as a Kelvinator appliance factory between 1926-27. If you face north on Freeland Street, you’ll see the building’s front tower standing tall, a crumbling beacon of times when Detroit was the heart of the US automotive industry, dominating all other cities in the country. The former American Motors Corporation Headquarters sits abandoned, an industrial castle on Plymouth Road in Detroit, Michigan.
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