• A brick, two-story bulding with a sign on a front facade labeling the building as "The Wright Cycle Co."
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    The brothers moved the Wright Cycle Co. for the last time in 1897, to 1127 West Third Street. Here they built all their experimental aircraft, including the first powered airplane in 1903. Henry Ford purchased the shop, along with the Wrights’ house, and moved them in 1937 to his Greenfield Village complex in Dearborn, Michigan, where they are open to the public.

  • A brick, two-story bulding with a sign on a front facade labeling the building as "The Wright Cycle Co."

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