Saint Joseph's Episcopal Church, 1883 (Detroit, Michigan)
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| St. Joseph's Episcopal Church | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location: | Detroit, Michigan |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1883 |
| Architect: | Malcomson & Higginbotham |
| Architectural style(s): | Other, Romanesque |
| Added to NRHP: | August 03, 1982 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 82002908[1] |
| MPS: | Religious Structures of Woodward Ave. TR |
| Governing body: | Private |
The Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church is located at 5930 Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was built in 1883 as the Saint Joseph's Episcopal Church.
[edit] History[2]
The original building in this complex, St. Joseph's Memorial Chapel, was a gift of Mrs. L.R. Medbury, and was built on the corner or Woodward and Medbury (now the Edsel Fordservice drive). The chapel, consecrated in 1884, soon proved too small, and a larger church, completed in 1896, was erected facing Woodward.
In 1906, St. Joseph's congregation merged with that of the congregation of the nearby St. Paul's Cathedral. The St. Joseph's building was sold to Father Francis J. Vananthwerp in 1907, and the Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church was established. The new congregation altered some of the church's structure, extending the nave and adding an oversized, gilded statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary atop the south tower's hipped roof.[3]
[edit] Architecture[2]
The complex is located on the northeast corner of Woodward Avenue and Medbury Street (now the Edsel Ford service drive). The church, built from 1893 to 1896, is a massive rock-faced, cross-gable-roofed, sandstone, Romanesque Revival structure. The gabled facade is flanked by two towers: a tall, square, pyramid-roofed tower to the south and a round, conical-roofed tower on the north. The entrance between the towers is into a one-story vesibule; it is surmounted by an enormous round window.
[edit] References
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
- ^ a b State of Michigan
- ^ Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church/ St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church from Detroit1701.org
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