Albert Kahn, world famous Jewish industrial architect who designed many of the United States military and naval installations here and abroad, and who built most of the factories of the automotive ...

The white-haired old man who had just been awarded a medal for distinguished war service had never been closer to the firing line than the desk of blueprints in his office in Detroit. But the ...

Around Detroit, automobile plants are native architecture, just as automobile talk is native folklore. More closely identified with that architecture than anyone else alive is a burly, white-haired ...

Albert Kahn Associates' Fisher Building (1928), a 30-story Art Deco landmark in uptown Detroit. (Ken Lund/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0) Several in-progress projects headed by Kahn are also featured including ...

Renowned architect Albert Kahn and his firm designed more than 400 buildings that still stand all over southeast Michigan and thousands more around the world, but step outside Michigan and many don't ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of architect Albert Kahn date from 1875-1970, bulk 1875-1945, and measure 7.02 linear feet. Found within the papers is biographical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A century-old Detroit mansion designed by famed architect Albert Kahn is on the market for $1.1 million, with much of its original ...

The Roosevelt Warehouse, or Book Depository as the building is best known, is an Art Deco landmark. A March 1987 fire left the structure a burned-out shell, and it sat empty for the next 35 years.

ANN ARBOR, MI - Albert Kahn’s fingerprints are all over hundreds of buildings throughout southeastern Michigan. The German-born architect is perhaps best known for his work with industrialist Henry ...

When the 26-year-old Albert Kahn launched his architecture office in 1895, he might have been amused had someone suggested it'd still be going strong 125 years later. But that's where Albert Kahn ...