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Durant-Dort Carriage Company Office
The Durant-Dort Carriage Company Office is a historic office building located at 316 West Water Street in Flint, Michigan. This office building was the focal point of William C. Durant's efforts in building first carriages and then automobiles, and is the only extant building closely associated with Durant. It was here〔 – reprint of the text of the Michigan Historical Marker placed in front of the building〕 that pivotal decisions were made in the development and financing of the Buick Motor Company, the beginning of Chevrolet, and Durant's founding of General Motors.〔 The Durant-Dort Carriage Company Office was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1978.〔〔 and 〕
==William Crapo Durant==
(詳細はBoston, Massachusetts, the grandson of lumber millionaire and Michigan governor Henry H. Crapo.〔 His parents separated in 1871, and William moved with his mother to Flint, where they lived quite comfortably thanks to William's grandfather.〔 After dropping out of high school just before graduation, Durant worked for a time for the family lumber business as a millhand, then moved into sales. He was a director of one of Flint's leading banks,〔 and began selling cigars, real estate, and patent medicine, before finally deciding on insurance.〔 By the mid-1880s, he ran one of the largest insurance agencies in mid-Michigan.〔
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