Poletown Historic District, Fisher Body Company Plant No. 12, 1961 East Milwaukee Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Significance: It served as a manufacturing plant for several early automobile companies, as well as for the Fisher Body Company. / This brick factory has served as the home for a half dozen firms, with most of them related to Detroit's automobile industry. Because its earliest roots are distant and obscure, the buildings are usually associated with either the Fisher Body Corporation, which occupied the plant from 1916 until 1942, or the J. Lee Hackett Company, which used it from 1942 until 1973 and left a large sign on the roof. It is a good example of the numerous relatively small plants built in the Milwaukee Junction industrial district of Detroit during the period 1900-1920.
Survey number: HABS MI-275-12