The wait is over. @michigancentraldetroit and Ford Motor Co. lifted the veil on the six-year restoration of Michigan Central Station ahead of its opening this week. Today, we will be posting a series of before-and-afters with historic shots showing the miraculous work to bring the station back to its original 1913 grandeur. Here is the waiting room, featuring chandeliers re-created from original station plans, the 29,000-tile Guastavino ceiling - each hand-cleaned and held in place by 8.7 miles of grout. The marble floors are almost entirely original. The missing ceiling medallions were re-created by making plaster molds of the few that survived. Photos: 2024 post-restoration by Helmut Ziewers/HistoricDetroit.org 2010 ruin photo by Lou Peeples 1970s photo by Keith Jolly #Detroit #MichiganCentral #MichiganCentralStation #HistoricPreservation