(15 Sep 2025)
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Dearborn, Michigan – 11 September 2025
1. Ted Ryan, Ford Motor Co.’s heritage and brand manager, stands in front of the automaker’s current world headquarters, the Henry Ford II World Center, aka “The Glass House”
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ARCHIVE: Dearborn, Michigan – 2 June 1940
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2. STILL of Ford Motor founder Henry Ford (right) and his son, Edsel Ford, looking over a scale model of a Ford plant (AP Photo; ID 4006020129)
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Dearborn, Michigan – 11 September 2025
3. Various of a Model T on display inside Ford’s world headquarters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Ryan, Ford heritage and brand manager:
“Ford was actually incorporated and the first headquarters were in Detroit proper on Mack Avenue. Piquette Plant was in Detroit proper. After that, we moved out of the city to Highland Park, a nearby suburb of Detroit. But in 1928, Ford Motor Company moved its headquarters to Dearborn, Michigan, where we’ve been for almost the next hundred years.”
5. Various of Ford employees walking down a hallway inside the headquarters building
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Ryan, Ford heritage and brand manager:
“We’re sitting at the Henry Ford II World Center. It was opened in 1956, and the locals quickly began to call it ‘The Glass House,’ because of the extensive use of glass and the architectural style.”
7. Wide exterior of The Glass House
8. Ryan points to the flags of various countries that ring the building’s entrance
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Ryan, Ford heritage and brand manager:
“When it opened, it was one of the largest buildings that housed a single corporate entity, Ford Motor Company at The Glass House.”
10. Various of the exterior and crews working on Ford’s new world headquarters building
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Ryan, Ford heritage and brand manager:
“Beginning in November, Ford headquarters will move from The Glass House to the new building that’s about 3 miles away or about 10 minutes away, on the land that was formerly the Product Development Center.”
12. Various of a worker measuring a beam at the new headquarters
13. A Ford video runs on a digital display inside what will be the visitor entrance to the new HQ building
14. Crews at work on the new structure
15. The building exterior
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Ryan, Ford heritage and brand manager:
“For the first time in more than 100 years, Ford is going to have its administration where the product is actually being developed. The last time was at Piquette, but we’ve been out of there since 1910. So, as we move to the new headquarters, it was on the site of the Product Development Center. Product development and administration will all take place in the same building.”
17. Various of Ryan walking toward, then into, the current headquarters
18. Various of a statue of Henry Ford II on display inside the HQ named after him
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ARCHIVE: Dearborn, Michigan – 8 September 1994
19. STILL of William Clay Ford Sr. (right) and his son, Bill Ford, standing together inside The Glass House (AP Photo: Jeff Kowalsky; ID 513990138166)
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20. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Ryan, Ford heritage and brand manager:
“Here at The Glass House, many of the Ford family members have had offices. The namesake for our building, the Henry Ford II World Center, obviously had an office here. But so did William Clay Ford and so did Benson Ford, although William Clay Ford Sr. actually moved to the Product Development Center when he took over design. Since then, Bill Ford has an office here on the 12th floor.”
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