Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company, Building A, 119 South Dexter Street, Ionia, Ionia County, MI
Summary
Significance: This factory building served as the principal manufacturing facility of the Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company from 1913 until 1948. It was the major manufacturing facility for the Ionia Manufacturing Company in 1948-1953 and for the Mitchell-Bentley Corporation in 1953-1964. Both firms produced wooden and steel station wagon bodies for the major Detroit automobile manufacturers. More recently, plastic body panels and other auto parts have been made here.
Survey number: HAER MI-405-A
Building/structure dates: 1913-1917 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1923 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1953 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1953
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Wernett, Bradfield & Mead
Mead, Harry L
Meyer, Lauren, transmitter
Anderson, Carla, photographer
Hyde, Charles K, historian
Location
Ionia (Mich.), 42.98163, -85.07020
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html