World Map Sculpture, Henry Ford II World Center, circa 1955
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Ford Motor Company's world headquarters moved to a new 12-story office complex in Dearborn, Michigan, in 1956. Chicago architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the building in the then-popular International Style. Initially called the Central Staff Office Building -- and nicknamed the "Glass House" -- Ford renamed the complex the Henry Ford II World Center in 1996.
Ford Motor Company's world headquarters moved to a new 12-story office complex in Dearborn, Michigan, in 1956. Chicago architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the building in the then-popular International Style. Initially called the Central Staff Office Building -- and nicknamed the "Glass House" -- Ford renamed the complex the Henry Ford II World Center in 1996.
Artifact
Slide (Photograph)
Subject Date
circa 1955
Creators
Keywords
Collection Title
Henry Ford II World Center and Michigan Proving Ground Photographs
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2017.109.4
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Pieronek Studios, Hamtramck, Michigan.
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 2 in
Width: 2 in
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