The Warren Motor Car Company Building, also known as Lincoln Motor Car Company Building, is a factory located at 1331 Holden Street in Detroit, Michigan, now part of the Lincoln Street Art Park.
The company occupied a building along Michigan Avenue on the west side of Detroit, and produced 1000 vehicles in its first year.
In 1910, Warren purchased this plot of land on Holden from the Detroit Column & Manufacturing Company.
Warren hired the Detroit architectural firm of Rogers and MacFarlane to design a series of building to fill the site.
[2] Lozier lasted less than a year in their new space, and in 1917 Henry M. Leland purchased the property to house his newly formed Lincoln Motor Company.
However, The Holden property quickly proved too small, and by early 1918 most of the production was moved to the completely new Lincoln Motor Company Plant, leaving a small machining operation at the Holden plant.
Manufacturing of Model Ts at the Holden plant likely continued through 1927, although the exact date is uncertain.
[2] Beginning in 1946, the grocery firm of Grosse Pointe Quality Foods was operating out of the Holden plant.
The later additions are steel-framed, sitting on reinforced concrete slabs with non-load-bearing masonry exterior walls.
It is a two-story Commercial style building constructed with a timber frame and load-bearing wall of dark red brick and cast stone accents.
The entry is flanked by two windows on each side, with red brick piers separating the bays.
Within the piers, raised brick rectangles designed to resemble quoins are laid between the windows.
A brick parapet wall capped with brown terra cotta coping is above the second floor.
The openings on the second story are larger, and are intended to house multi-paned steel factory windows.