Albert Kahn (architect) - Kahn-designed Buildings

Kahn-designed Buildings

• Dexter M. Ferry summer residence in Unadilla Center, New York; early 19th century stone farmhouse remodeled in 1890. Extant today. Known as Milfer Farm, held by Ferry heirs today. Kahn also designed the "Honeymoon Cottage" on the estate, one of the earliest prefabricated houses built.
• Detroit Athletic Club (1915), on Madison Avenue, Detroit
• William Livingstone House (1892–93), in Brush Park, Detroit. The French Renaissance house was demolished on September 15, 2007. The Livingstone house in Detroit's Brush Park was Kahn's first known design, created while he was employed by the Detroit architect George Mason, who is the architect of record. Livingstone founded the Dime Savings Bank. The William Livingstone House was commemorated in a painting by Lowell Bioleau entitled Open House which was unveiled the day of its demolition.
• Hiram Walker offices, 1892, in Windsor, Ontario
• Bernard Ginsburg House, 1898
• Detroit Racquet Club, 1902 (Kahn designed but was not allowed membership at the time, being Jewish) 626 Woodbridge Street, Detroit
• Temple Beth El, 1903, Kahn's home synagogue, now the Bonstelle Theatre of Wayne State University
• Brandeis-Millard House, 1904, located in the Country Club Historic District of Midtown Omaha, Nebraska is the only known work by Kahn in the state.
• Packard Automotive Plant, 1903, Kahn's tenth factory for Packard but first concrete one
• Palms Apartments, 1903, 1001 East Jefferson Avenue, Detroit
• Belle Isle Aquarium and Conservatory, 1904, and Casino, 1907 on Belle Isle, Detroit
• Albert Kahn House, 1906, Brush Park, Detroit, Michigan (his personal residence)

• Addison Hotel, 1905
• Frederick Stearns Building addition, 1906
• George N. Pierce Plant, 1906, in Buffalo, New York
• Willistead Manor, 1906, home of the son of Hiram Walker in Windsor, Ontario
• Battle Creek Post Office, 1907, concrete construction method used in Kahn's Packard plant
• Cranbrook House, 1907, at Cranbrook Educational Community
• Highland Park Ford Plant, 1908, Highland Park, Michigan
• Edwin S. George Building, 1908
• Kaufman Footwear Building, 1908, Kitchener, Ontario, recently renovated into lofts
• Mahoning National Bank, 1909, Youngstown, Ohio
• Packard Motor Corporation Building, 1910-1911, Philadelphia
• National Theatre, 1911, 118 Monroe Street, Detroit
• Bates Mill Building Number 5, 1914, in Lewiston, Maine
• Kales Building, 1914, 18-story white building at Adams and Park on Grand Circus Park in Detroit built for S. S. Kresge Company
• Liggett School-Eastern Campus, 1914, 2555 Burns, Detroit; Detroit Waldorf School since 1964
• Garden Court Apartments, 1915, 2900 East Jefferson Avenue, Detroit
• Vinton Building, 1916
• Russell Industrial Center, 1916
• Detroit News Building, 1917
• NY Headquarters, Ford Motor Company, 1917, in New York, New York, now home of Sean John and Bad Boy Worldwide
• Multiple buildings and Aircraft Maintenance Hangars (Bldg 777&781 on Langley AFB, VA), 1917-1919.
• Motor Wheel Factory, Lansing, Michigan, 1918. Currently being renovated into residential lofts.
• General Motors Building, 1919, largest office building in the world at that time, GM world headquarters, now State of Michigan offices

• Fisher Body Plant 21, 1921
• First Congregational Church addition, 1921
• Phoenix Mill, 1921
• First National Building, Detroit, 1922
• Detroit Police Headquarters, 1923
• Temple Beth El, 1923 (a new building to replace the 1903 temple), currently Citadel of Faith Church
• Walker Power Plant, 1923, in Windsor, Ontario
• Ford Motor Company Lamp Factory, 1921–1925, in Flat Rock, Michigan
• Detroit Free Press Building, 1925
• 1001 Covington Apartments, 1925, Detroit
• Ford Hangar at The Lansing Municipal Airport, Lansing, Illinois (South Suburban Chicago Area), 1926
• S. S. Kresge World Headquarters, 1927, 5½ story horizontally massed Art Deco structure
• Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, 1927, home of Henry Ford's son, built as an English manor house in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan.
• Fisher Building, 1927, skyscraper in Detroit's New Center district
• Argonaut Building 1928, General Motors laboratory, now owned by the College for Creative Studies, Detroit
• Detroit Times Building, 1929 (Demolished, 1978)
• Griswold Building, 1929, 1214 Griswold Street, Detroit
• New Center Building, 1930, 7430 Second Avenue, adjacent to the Fisher Building in Detroit's New Center district
• River Rouge Glass Plant, 1930
• The Dearborn Inn 1931, world's first airport hotel, built and decorated in the Georgian style
• Congregation Shaarey Zedek 1932, 2900 West Chicago Boulevard, Detroit
• Ford Rotunda, designed for Chicago World's Fair, 1934 (burned, 1963)
• Dodge Truck Plant, 1938, Warren, Michigan
• Burroughs Adding Machine Plant, 1938, Plymouth, Michigan
• Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant, 1941, produced 1/4 of American WWII tanks, continued tank production until 1997, Warren, Michigan
• Upjohn Tower designed for the Upjohn Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan, used both for production and administration. Demolished in 2005 after Pfizer buyout.
• Willow Run Bomber Plant, 1941, used by Ford for bombers during the war, then by Kaiser for cars, then by GM for transmissions
• Ford Assembly Building, California
• Blake Building, Jackson Michigan 1926

BUILDINGS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Campus Buildings Built During His Career (Source of this list: Schreiber, Penny. “Albert Kahn’s Campus.” The Ann Arbor Observer, January, 2002, pp. 27–33):

• • Engineering Building (now West Hall) 1904
  • Psychopathic Hospital (demolished) 1906
  • Hill Auditorium 1913
  • Helen Newberry Residence Hall 1915
  • Natural Science Building 1915
  • Betsy Barbour Residence Hall 1920
  • General Library (now Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library) 1920
  • William L. Clements Library 1923
  • Angell Hall 1924
  • Physical Science Building (now Randall Laboratory) 1924
  • University Hospital (demolished) 1925
  • Couzens Hall 1925
  • East Medical Building (now C. C. Little Building) 1925
  • Thomas H. Simpson Memorial Institute 1927
  • University Museums Building 1928
  • Burton Memorial Tower 1936
  • Neuropsychiatric Institute (demolished) 1938

Greek Organization Buildings:

• • Sigma Phi House (1900), 426 North Ingalls Street (demolished)
  • Delta Upsilon House (1903), 1331 Hill Street
  • Collegiate Sorosis House (1905–06), 1501 Washtenaw Avenue
  • Delta Gamma House (1912), 1205 Hill Street
  • Psi Upsilon House (1924), 1000 Hill Street