Construction crews are preparing to install the final steel beam to complete the structure of the new administration building and visitor center later this month.

In honor of the upcoming milestone, members of the Ford House board of trustees signed the final steel beam...

Construction work has been progressing in the last quarter of 2018, and you can now see the structures starting to take some shape.

Our builder, Frank Rewold & Son Inc., poured the foundation for the Visitor Center and Administration Buildings in October.

This week, they...

As they have been preparing the site over the summer, our builders, Frank Rewold & Son Inc., have dug 16 geothermal boreholes, sometimes called “wells.”  The wells are part of a closed-circuit geothermal system that will heat and cool the new Administration Building.

The Edsel & Eleanor Ford House board of directors joined staff, architects and designers from SmithGroupJJr and building contractors Frank Rewold and Son for a groundbreaking ceremony today for our two new facilities, a visitor center and an administration building.

Thi...

Due to the construction of the new Visitor Center at Ford House, the Visitor Center and Cotswold Cafe will close on Aug. 20, 2017.

 
While the new state-of-the-art Visitor Center is under construction, we will have a temporary welcoming space for guests inside the histo...

To prepare for construction later this fall, work has begun to create a new parking lot near the Gate Lodge. Construction began this week and will wrap up in a few weeks. The new lot will be available for our tour guests when the visitor center closes later this summer...

Read about the project plans in the Grosse Pointe Times here.

Excerpt: 
"During a Jan. 10 Grosse Pointe Shores Planning Commission meeting, Ford House officials outlined their plans for a new visitor center — to replace the existing activities building — as well as an a...