Grimm Jewelry Store and Heinz House during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, April 2003

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Artifact Overview

By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Digital photograph

Date Made

April 2003

Subject Date

April 2003

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

EI.1929.6354

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Color

Multicolored

Dimensions

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    Grimm Jewelry Store

    Englebert Grimm sold and repaired watches, clocks and jewelry in this building. The business was located on Michigan Avenue in Detroit, from 1886 until 1931. Shops like Grimm's prospered in cities, selling mass-produced goods of the newly industrializing society. Grimm and his family lived above the store in comfortable but relatively modest quarters.