1media/1955_Ford_Rotunda-thumb.jpgmedia/Ford_05.jpg2020-06-30T10:47:02-07:00Anne-Marie Maxwell326ac6eff123bb3f77fb517c66299be8b435b479375144plain2020-08-22T15:52:49-07:00Curtis Fletcher3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673eThe media dubbed the enormous showroom at Ford’s headquarters the “City of the Future” for the way it depicted such hoped-for innovations as radar-directed traffic, monorail trains, and elevated highways. Fittingly, the top of the building was designed to resemble a stack of gears. Originally built in 1933 for the Chicago World’s Fair, the company moved the structure to Dearborn, Michigan, in 1936 and used the grand space to introduce many of its new car models over the next few decades. Unfortunately, the building caught fire in 1962 and burned to the ground.