C.F. Smith Warehouse, Detroit

The CF Smith warehouses sit far from many other abandoned building, relatively. These two are the largest, sitting at eight to nine floors and a basement. In the 2010's an attempt at renovation was made, but fell through and left behind a half renovated warehouse. Albert Kahn's fancy art deco facades still stand along the street.


The square building had these stubs on the side so that they could expand at any time, if needed. The trick had already been preformed, because the walls of the first warehouse can be spotted within.


Looks like some kind of lobby type room added by the renovating owner. It obviously does not fit in, the hallway is at an angle

This would've been the room with the gauges to measure the building's power output, as well as the breaker room. Maybe to find out how much the residents would be using?

This building was pitch black on the bottom two floors, indescribably dark. The windows, as previously stated, were boarded over, and the added walls did not help at all


I recently found out that a music video for one of Eminem's songs was filmed around back sometime in the late 2000's.

Nearing the top floor rooms weren't even constructed yet, some were just metal sticks floor plaster application. The ones on the floor and ceiling depict how the new rooms were to be laid out.

The massive steel gates to the hot steel sky bridge; these doors were to insulate the building from the very conductive metal walkway that would fluctuate in temperature yearly

One of the buildings had a nice skylight at the top, it really tied the place together. This would've been a nice room to host a party, if the building had been renovated as planned


I have no clue what these big gears were for, maybe they opened the metal trapdoor below, used as a conveyor possibly? It must've been some form of lift...


The skyline in south Detroit, populated by the Ambassador Bridge. A different Albert Kahn warehouse I'd explored, had began demolition earlier in 2021 by the owners of the bridge, and I'd driven past it.


That's a really fancy elevator-hut. It had been said that one of the warehouse owners made plans for the design of this particular structure that Albert Kahn had designed himself


These stairs went up about 10 flights from roof to basement, a dizzying descent as there was gaping hole in the center; I think they were almost like a set in the Packard Plant












 

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