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Group Plans to Recreate Ford’s Famous Rotunda
A group proposes to build a smaller version of Ford Motor Co.’s iconic Rotunda building more than 50 years after fire destroyed the original.
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More than 50 years after fire destroyed the Ford Motor Co. Rotunda building in Dearborn, Mich., a group called the Early Ford V-8 Foundation proposes re-creating a smaller version of the structure as part of its museum complex in Auburn, Ind., Hemmings Daily reports.
Built in 1934 as the centerpiece of Ford's display at the Chicago World's Fair, the 12-story Albert Kahn-designed building was meant to represent a concentric set of gears. After the fair, Henry Ford had the structure shipped to Dearborn and re-assembled near Ford's headquarters.
A dome that was built later over the open-air Rotunda caught fire during repairs in 1962, and the entire structure quickly burned to the ground.
Early Ford V-8 Foundation strategic planner Bill Tindall tells Hemmings Daily that the new Rotunda is likely to be between two-thirds and three-quarters the size of the original.