When it comes to limestone formed by glaciers millions of years ago, who knows or who cares about the tiny differences in color or pattern? Well, Bill Ford did.
When it came down to the tiniest detail in restoring Michigan Central Station, Ford didn’t plan to cut corners on the company’s legacy project, even if almost no one would know.
So that meant figuring out the original source of limestone dug up before 1913 and used to build the train station that would service the Motor City when it was called the Paris of the Midwest and later sent soldiers away to World War II and welcomed them home again.
That very same limestone was needed to match and replace giant exterior and interior blocks and columns holding up what would become the most ambitious restoration project in Detroit history, opening in Corktown on June 6 after six years of hard labor involving hundreds of millions of dollars. Michigan Central Station closed in 1988, abandoned and destroyed.
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