Ford Headquarters, Michigan

Ford’s headquarters building in Dearborn is close to the company’s famous River Rouge Plant, still one of the biggest industrial sites in the country today, as it was in the 1920s when it was cranking out the components of the Model T, the first car for the masses. The headquarters building is a large glass building with in a cluster of related corporate offices around it. Across the river (and a highway cloverleaf) to the west is much more of the company, including the Research and Innovation Center, the Product Development Center, and the Engineering Lab, as well as publicly accessible parts of the Ford legacy, such as the Henry Ford Museum, and Greenfield Village, a collection of buildings and artifacts collected by Henry Ford from across the nation, set into an idealized version of small town USA. His home, Fair Lane, is also nearby, as is the Dearborn Development Center, with its large and diverse test track. Today Ford is the second largest domestic car company in the USA, following GM in output and number of plants, though it is often close. Ford sells around 2.6 million cars a year in the USA, and has around eight assembly plants in the USA at the moment.