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DETROIT, June 5, 2024 ~ From June 6-16, Ford Motor Co. and Michigan Central Station will welcome the community to celebrate its triumphant reopening.
The station’s doors will open to the public for the 10-day, immersive open house experience to see the landmark’s restored first floor. This project was a mix of preservation, re-purposing, recreating, and a bit of re-imagining. Efforts were taken to ensure historical accuracy in the restoration, such as Ford and its partners locating the same quarry in Indiana that provided the original stone for the station’s exterior more than 100 years ago.
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June 5, 2024 ~ Ford Motor Co. and Michigan Central Station will welcome the community to celebrate its triumphant re-opening this week, and WJR Senior News Analyst Marie Osborne talks with Guy Gordon and Jamie Edmonds about the incredible renovation of the landmark’s restored first floor.
(CONTINUED) But the Dark Hollow Quarry in Indiana closed decades ago, and no longer had roads leading to the pit. That’s when workers set about cutting down trees and laying a new road to get to the facility to retrieve the limestone.
“In my 30 years of historic preservation work, I’ve never had to reopen a quarry before, and we went to the original hole where that Michigan Central Station stone came from,” Ron Staley, vice president of the Christman Co. told the Detroit Free Press.
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