# @historicdetroit on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C7v_aoTqsmR
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/19325177-historicdetroit-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/b58d1cedec.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-06-03T10:16:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dan Austin (@historicdetroit) — https://gondola.cc/historicdetroit

## Caption

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

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Civic Social | @f4civic | https://gondola.cc/f4civic | Social Agency |
| Dan Austin | @historicdetroit | https://gondola.cc/historicdetroit | Creator |

## Tags

detroit, michigancentral, historicpreservation, michigancentralstation, owned

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