Statues of GM founder Durant and partner Dort.
Restored Durant-Dort Factory One is open to the public.
Originally the Flint Road Cart Co., this historic building now houses an extensive collection of early GM and Flint history.
Factory One restoration includes more than 17,000 color-matched replacement bricks.
Original beams and supports are visible in restored main floor event space in Factory One, which can accommodate groups of up to 300.
Interior ceiling emulates materials and construction style of the original factory, with modern lighting added.
Reuss addresses audience at the opening of Durant-Dort Factory One.
Reuss, who worked as an engineer in Flint, MI, early in his GM career, championed the Factory One project.
Reuss receives replica historic print from Kettering's McMahan (right).
Factory One operations manager and "chief storyteller" Kirbitz addresses gathering at building opening.
Dallas C. Dort (left), grandson of Josiah Dallas Dort, and Daniel "Duke" Durant Merrick, great-grandson of William Durant, at the opening Factory One,
Daniel Durant Merrick (left) and Dallas C. Dort with statues of their famous ancestors.
Research area includes climate-controlled space for the Kettering archives.
Some 100,000 documents, photographs and artifacts on early automotive history now housed at Factory One.
Second-level reception area and working space blends old and new.
Statues of GM founder Durant (right) and his partner, Dort, look toward the restored factory where they built Buicks more than a century ago.