No new employees have walked thru this door since 1956 ( New Employees Entrance - Abandoned Packard Plant-Detroit )
EXPLORED! The Packard plant on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit was designed by Albert Kahn, and included the first use of reinforced concrete for industrial construction in Detroit. When opened in 1907, it was considered the most modern automobile manufacturing facility in the world. The plant closed in 1957 ( although parts of it are still rented out ). The plant complex covers 35 acres ( 3.5 Million Square feet ) and during it's peak covered 4.5 million square feet.
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Jessica L V, schwartzray, Chris Luckhardt, DaddyNewt, and 63 other people added this photo to their favorites.
1971Rich [deleted] (63 months ago | reply)
Nice one Derek.
dr0zda (63 months ago | reply)
Nice shot. What a sad facade.
~ Liberty Images (63 months ago | reply)
Such a shame. Great shot, though.
RIPizzo (63 months ago | reply)
Wow, lovely history. Thanks for posting.
Chris Luckhardt (63 months ago | reply)
Nice shot. I couldn't get over the wasteland Detroit has become when we were there last month. Unreal!
DaddyNewt (63 months ago | reply)
Congrats on Explore! #349
Osvaldo_Zoom (63 months ago | reply)
Congratulations!....You are in Explore and your photo is very good... Beautiful
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Len Langevin (63 months ago | reply)
Great shot! Have you considered doing a b&w version of this?
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Kollektiv Pseudonym [deleted] (63 months ago | reply)
awesome work…stunning…+++
eine hervorragende arbeit…+++
greetings from bavaria [the one and only oktoberfestcountry ;)]
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darkenergy777 (63 months ago | reply)
Great capture, wonderful work.!!!
DetroitDerek Photography ( ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ) (63 months ago | reply)
Thank you so much everyone - I did not know this picture was in Explore! I visit this site frequently, but this is the first time that I have really walked around and "got to know it" better. The pictures of the inside of the building are NOT taken from inside the building - the walls are completely gone in areas and I just poked my camera in. I'm not a lucky person so I don't go inside - the whole thing will come down on me with my luck! Thank you again to everyone that views/faves/comments on my wife's and my pictures and wish you all the best!
DD
IslandPhotoBug~Cori Conz (63 months ago | reply)
That is an awesome shot! It's so sad but "beautiful" at the same time.
bethelynk (63 months ago | reply)
Amazing image. I have lived in Detroit all my life and you find things that I have never seen and only heard of. Great work!!!
lorokoreano (63 months ago | reply)
Muy bonita me encanta
=ENIS= (63 months ago | reply)
che macello....nice shot!
DRose69 (63 months ago | reply)
Great photo, sad when old buildings are left to to fall apart
Photos by Linda A (63 months ago | reply)
Great photo Derek. All these abandoned photos are great. Interesting topic to shoot.
dreaminofbeadin (63 months ago | reply)
Great subject - nicely done!
DetroitDerek Photography ( ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ) (63 months ago | reply)
This picture is currently at #65 on Explore. Thank you again to EVERYONE for taking the time to view/comment/fave my pics. I read every comment on every picture and appreciate them all. Thanks again.
vigo74 (63 months ago | reply)
Awesome shot Derek!
DandelionSky (63 months ago | reply)
great shot, I never even knew this was still around...still so much history in this city.
regina_austria (63 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Türen/Tore/Doors/Portals, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
.liL aLien. (63 months ago | reply)
though it looks so sad, somehow it looks beautiful. :)
buckshot.jones (63 months ago | reply)
Well done.
DetroitDerek Photography ( ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ) (63 months ago | reply)
It made it to #40 and then fell off. Thanks again everyone!
you wen (63 months ago | reply)
love it.
DetroitDerek Photography ( ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ) (63 months ago | reply)
Hey it's # 37 and back on Explore. Woo hoo!
BACKYard Woods Explorer (63 months ago | reply)
#36. I just faved it.
DetroitDerek Photography ( ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ) (63 months ago | reply)
#32. Thanks again everyone!
kaslingsby (62 months ago | reply)
Interesting to compare it to almost an identical shot taken 3 years earlier.
J.S.W. [deleted] (62 months ago | reply)
Has a post apocalypse feel to it. Great.
narani (61 months ago | reply)
wow..love this!
paulhitz (55 months ago | reply)
cant take this photo anymore, those doors and columns are gone
DetroitDerek Photography ( ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ) (55 months ago | reply)
I know. It's sad, isn't it. It looks so bare now, like the last piece of dignity has been stripped from this once mighty building.
NoneOther... {Captured In Lights}... (55 months ago | reply)
Is this fenced in? Can you walk up to the plant?
DetroitDerek Photography ( ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ) (55 months ago | reply)
The good news is the entire facility is "unfenced". The bad news is the people in the area don't take kindly to people going in and have taken shots at people for going in , flattened tires, and damaged cars, as a "parting gift". I don't go in these places, if you do go in be careful.
TomSlatin.com (50 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Abandoned America, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
JH THe Shooter (43 months ago | reply)
nice!!
paperhill/hometowngirl [deleted] (39 months ago | reply)
really great!
I Calstarr x (37 months ago | reply)
This is a nice shot and really gives an insite into what happens in the world around us
Hilarywho (33 months ago | reply)
Hi Derek - I met you at your Bean and Leaf show a few months back. I'm wondering if I could use this photo on my blog? Let me know asap because I'd like to put the blog post up today (Sept.13) or tomorrow. Thanks. Hilary
claire"" :) (32 months ago | reply)
whats that?is that an old church
DetroitDerek Photography ( ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ) (32 months ago | reply)
that is the entrance to the abandoned Packard Automotive factory.
Chris Luckhardt (24 months ago | reply)
Derek, looks like a blog is using this photo without given credit to you: 9fengxing.info/2011/04/60-example-photographs -show-the-ur...
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zPRIME (23 months ago | reply)
Totally awesome image. Dig the light.
fjp912 (20 months ago | reply)
I understand this part of the facade has been preserved by moving it to a Packard museum.
DetroitDerek Photography ( ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ) (20 months ago | reply)
Both of the marble entrances were auctioned off, 1 of them did end up in the Packard Museum.