In Genesee Township, it opened to manufacture body hardware around 1953. The plant was originally intended to build aircraft engines for Buick during the Korean War, but never did.
In 1969, Ternstedt Division merged with Fisher Body Division (its original parent), which was dissolved in 1984 when its Coldwater Road plant was turned over to the newly-formed Fisher Guide Division. Fisher Guide became Inland Fisher Guide Division in 1989. The Coldwater Road plant was renamed again in 1995, when the newly-formed Delphi Automotive Systems took over. Finally, in 1996 Delphi sold the Coldwater Road factory to Peregrine Investments Holdings, which attempted to make the plant profitable before closing it around 1998. It was soon demolished.
Other notable Automtive Historical Buildings in Genesee County. The Paterson Building was built by Auto Pioneer William A. Paterson, of the Paterson Automotive Company. The Art Deco Building still stands today at the corner of S. Saginaw and Third street in the heart of down town Flint MI.
“ The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of the craftsmen, if art is there, there is a concern for beauty, through a kind of indirect repercussion that the requirements of the creativity of the spirit exercise upon the production of an object to serve human needs. ”
—Jacques Maritain (18821973)