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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

Albert Kahn built it to stamp car bodies; Detroit's artists inherited the daylight. The Russell Industrial Center at 1600 Clay Street is a seven-building, 2.2-million-square-foot complex at Milwaukee Junction - the crossing of the two railroads around which Detroit's original auto industry clustered - designed in 1915 for the J.W. Murray Manufacturing Company. Kahn's signature reinforced-concrete construction gave Murray fireproof floors, open spans without obstructive columns and walls of stee...