Industry History | General Motors — The Second-Floor Office at 316 West Water Street
· 1908-9
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Industry History | General Motors — The Second-Floor Office at 316 West Water Street
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People treat General Motors as a Detroit tower that arrived already named Chevrolet and Cadillac.
The holding company was assembled here, from William C. Durant's second-floor office in the Durant-Dort Carriage Company building at 316 West Water Street in Flint, Michigan, in 1908.
Durant and J. Dallas Dort had put the brick office up in 1895 as the front for what became the largest carriage works in the country. From that room Durant took over Buick in 1904, then spent 1908 stitching Buick to Oldsmobile. General Motors Company was incorporated in New Jersey on 16 September 1908. The first car the new company counted as its own was a Flint Buick built that autumn.
Cadillac, Oakland, and a string of parts makers followed. Durant was thrown out in 1910, built Chevrolet from the same Flint circle, and came back. The office stayed a carriage and then a Dort Motor address until 1924. It is a National Historic Landmark. Visitors still walk the restored rooms.
Renaissance Center is not the pin. This three-storey brick box on the Flint River is.
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