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History
The story
of Fisher Body 21 began when brothers Fred and Charles
Fisher founded the Fisher Body Company in 1908. Fisher soon
became the industry standard and as orders came in from
Detroit's auto manufacturers, Fisher expanded. For the first
two decades Fisher's production facilities would be centered
in Detroit in an area east of Woodward and south of Grand
Boulevard. It would be in this area that the Fisher Body 21
plant rose in 1919.
Located at the corner of Hastings and Piquette Ave, just
east of Woodward, Fisher Body 21 was just one of 40
buildings used by the company. By 1926 there was 3.7 million
square feet of floor space. Fisher Body 21, measuring 200
feet by 581 feet only accounted for 536,000 square feet of
this total. The six story structure was built with
reinforced concrete in a manner developed by Albert Kahn.
Fisher Body 21 was built to house a body assembly plant.
Between 1919 and 1925 it produced bodies for Buick and
Cadillac. After Buick moved to Flint it continued to produce
Cadillac bodies until becoming an engineering facility in
1929. The building continued as an engineering facility
until 1956 when it again was pressed into production. This
time around production centered around Cadillac limousine
bodies. It continued in this service at least until 1974
when my records end.
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