Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

	Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	The former plant in 2019
Location	5000 Baum Boulevard; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°27′18″N 79°56′42″W / 40.45500°N 79.94500°W
Built	1915
Architect	John H. Graham, Sr.
NRHP reference No.	100003134
Added to NRHP	November 20, 2018

The Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant is a historic former automobile assembly plant in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Located along a stretch of Baum Boulevard nicknamed "Automobile Row" due to its high concentration of auto-related businesses, the plant was built in 1915 by Ford Motor Company to assemble Ford Model T cars using the company's pioneering mass production processes. It was designed by Ford's corporate architect John H. Graham, Sr. and constructed from reinforced concrete. The plant consists of an eight-story main building which contained the assembly areas and a vehicle showroom, and a six-story crane shed which was used to hoist parts unloaded from the adjacent Pennsylvania Railroad tracks to the appropriate level for assembly. Due to the steeply sloping site, the building has only five stories above grade along the street elevations.^[2]

The plant stopped producing cars in 1932, but remained in use for vehicle and parts sales until 1953. The building then went through a variety of light industrial uses before being purchased by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in 2006. It was subsequently purchased by the University of Pittsburgh in 2018,^[3] the same year the property was added to the National Register of Historic Places.^[2] It is currently being renovated to house the UPMC Immune Transplant and Therapy Center, a collaboration between the university and UPMC.^[4] The center is scheduled to open in 2022.^[5]

References

^ "Weekly List 20181123". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
^ ^a ^b "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant" (PDF). City of Pittsburgh. National Park Service. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
^ Schooley, Tim (December 20, 2018). "University of Pittsburgh closes on buying former Ford Motor Co. building on Baum Boulevard". Pittsburgh Business Times. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
^ Templeton, David (February 13, 2018). "UPMC, Pitt announce new Immune Transplant and Therapy Center in Bloomfield". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
^ Mamula, Kris B. (June 10, 2021). "Pitt takes the lead as anchor tenant in Bloomfield project". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved January 10, 2022.

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[weekly-1] "Weekly List 20181123". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved July 21, 2019.

[nom-2] "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant" (PDF). City of Pittsburgh. National Park Service. Retrieved July 21, 2019.

[3] Schooley, Tim (December 20, 2018). "University of Pittsburgh closes on buying former Ford Motor Co. building on Baum Boulevard". Pittsburgh Business Times. Retrieved December 22, 2018.

[4] Templeton, David (February 13, 2018). "UPMC, Pitt announce new Immune Transplant and Therapy Center in Bloomfield". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved December 20, 2018.

[5] Mamula, Kris B. (June 10, 2021). "Pitt takes the lead as anchor tenant in Bloomfield project". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved January 10, 2022.

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