Standard Asbestos Manufacturing Company plant at Detroit, Michigan

In June 1928, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that a new "two-story and basement building comprised of departments for manufacturing purposes, warehouse facilities, and offices" would "be completed shortly by the Standard Asbestos Manufacturing Company, at 820 Baltimore Avenue, West, Detroit, Mich."¹ The journal said that "The second floor will be used for the production of asbestos products and the basement for storage of heavy asbestos materials."¹ Until then, it said, "The present plant of the company has been located for five years at the northwest corner of Third and Baltimore avenues."¹ The item describes the new building as planned; no row says when it opened.¹

Location

What each document says

Every statement about this plant in the documents, in each document's own words.

Asbestos Magazine, 1928, June 1928

• Operated: “The present plant ... located for five years at the northwest corner of Third and Baltimore avenues” (Standard Asbestos Manufacturing Company), said by Asbestos (magazine), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 15¹
• Opened: “will be completed shortly by the Standard Asbestos Manufacturing Company, at 820 Baltimore Avenue, West, Detroit” (Standard Asbestos Manufacturing Company), said by Asbestos (magazine), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 15¹
• Products made: “production of asbestos products ... air cell pipe coverings and blocks, ... cements” (Standard Asbestos Manufacturing Company), said by Asbestos (magazine), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 15¹

Other names

Documents call this plant “820 Baltimore Avenue, West, Detroit, Mich.”, “northwest corner of Third and Baltimore avenues”.

See also

• Asbestos exposure sites in Michigan

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1928, June 1928 (June 1, 1928), p. 15.