page_title: Dry Dock Complex (Detroit, Michigan)
section_title: Dry Dock Engine Works Machine Shop (1892)
hierarchical_section_title: Dry Dock Complex (Detroit, Michigan) / Buildings and Structures / Dry Dock Engine Works Machine Shop (1892)
caption_attribution_description: Dry Dock machine shop Detroit MI
context_page_description: The Dry Dock Complex consists of six interconnected buildings located at 1801–1803 Atwater Street in Detroit, Michigan, as well as the remains of a nearby dry dock at 1900 Atwater Street. The 1801-1803 Atwater complex is also known as the Globe Trading Company Building, and in 2015 was opened by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources as the Outdoor Adventure Center.
  The complex is significant as a historic maritime manufacturing facility. The earliest structure, an 1892 machine shop, is also significant as an early example of an industrial building entirely supported by its steel frame, but using traditional brick and standard windows to infill the curtain walls. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. In 2012, the Department of Natural Resources received funding for historic redevelopment of the complex, along the city's east riverfront promenade.
context_section_description: Also in 1892, Detroit Dry Dock built a machine shop at the corner of Atwater and Orleans, running parallel to Orleans.  The shop replaced a portion of the earlier machine shop which fronted on Atwater.  The building was designed and built by Berlin Iron Bridge Company, a firm from Connecticut now part of the American Bridge Company.  The building featured a load-bearing steel frame and non-load-bearing brick curtain walls, at the time a novel construction technique.   Also in 1892, Berlin Iron Bridge also built a boiler shop of the same construction across Dequindre from the main complex; this building has since been demolished.
caption: Machine shop in 1912 (right background).  Note "Detroit Shipbuilding Co." painted on the building.
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