The Gilmore Car Museum invites the Lincoln clubs to build a museum on its unique Michigan campus.

Much of the significance and charm of the Gilmore Car Museum campus lies in the placement of many historic structures, both restored originals and replicas, on the site. In keeping with that theme, the Lincoln Motor Car Heritage Museum, although a new building, is patterned after a historic Lincoln dealership.

The new Lincoln Motor Car Heritage Museum illustrates the rich history of the American automobile by tracing the legacy of the Lincoln automobile as a unifying thread. The Lincoln is unique among automotive brands, as the activities of Henry and Wilfred Leland, Henry and Edsel Ford, Billy Durant, the third, fourth and fifth generations of the Ford family and the hundreds of thousands of dedicated people associated with the Lincoln brand are integrated into a fascinating continuum.

With the façade of the Platte Lincoln dealership as their reference, Bosch Architects of Grand Rapids, Michigan, have designed an elegant fifteen-thousand-square-foot, clear-span building in which to display and explain the past, present and future legacy of the Lincoln automobile.