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Michigan Central Station

A grand 1913 railway station, abandoned for 30 years and a symbol of the city's decline, now magnificently restored by Ford.

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Open
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Price
Free; paid guided tours
Time Needed
45 minutes
Address
2001 15th St, Detroit, MI 48216Google MapsApple Maps
Getting There
In Corktown, about 5 minutes by car west of downtown.

Why Go

The Beaux-Arts station, by the architects of Grand Central in New York, closed in 1988 and was stripped by scrappers. Ford bought it in 2018 and reopened it in 2024 as the heart of a technology campus, with its vaulted waiting hall brought back to life.

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