Chalmers Motor Co. factory location

[buildingsofdetroit]

I'm having a hard time finding the location of it. Anyone know the crossroads?

[MikeM]

South side of Jefferson, between Lycaste and Conner. It became part of the old Chrysler Jefferson Avenue assembly plant which spanned both sides of Jefferson.

[sumas]

Kind of cool, my Grandpa worked for Hupp, then Chalmers. Also Electric Park. East area history fasinates me.

[Packman41]

Hello BOD:

Maybe this will help you too:

http://www.detroitmi.gov/LinkClick.a...=3096&mid=4357

The E. R. Thomas-Detroit Co. produced the car called the AThomas-Detroit@ and was located on East Jefferson Avenue west of Connor Creek at what was then the Grosse Pointe border in 1905. It existed for only two years and then was reorganized as the Chalmers Detroit Company in 1908. It became so successful that in 1910, as the Chalmers Motor Car Company, it grew into a complex of sixteen manufacturing buildings with a total floor space of one million feet on a site of thirty acres. By 1912, Chalmers employed over 4,000 workers.
The district around Connor Creek and East Jefferson Avenue became known as the Connor Creek Industrial Area. The six-story, 250,000 sq. ft. Wadsworth Wooden Body Plant was established on East Jefferson at Connor Creek in 1914.

[Packman41]

I have also read that the Chalmers factory site later became part of the Chrysler Jefferson Plant



Also this:

http://articles.latimes.com/1986-10-..._chrysler-jobs

Chrysler said the new plant, with an annual production capacity of about 250,000 units, will build a new light truck model beginning in 1991. The old Jefferson plant, which now builds Chrysler's K-cars and related front-wheel-drive models, will remain in operation while the new plant is under construction next door. It will then be torn down to make room for Chrysler suppliers that might move into the area, according to Gerald Greenwald, chairman of Chrysler Motors, Chrysler's automotive unit.
Complex Built in 1907
If Chrysler had not replaced the aging Jefferson complex, built in 1907 as the original headquarters for the old Chalmers Motor Car Co., with a new plant in the city, Detroit's economy might have been devastated. The old Jefferson plant is now one of only three assembly facilities left in the city of Detroit and is the dominant employer on Detroit's impoverished east side.