Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church

Woodward Ave. Presbyterian Church
Church facade from Woodward
Location: Detroit, Michigan
Built: 1908
Architect: Sidney Rose Badgley
Architectural style: Late Gothic Revival
Governing body: Private
MPS: Religious Structures of Woodward Ave. TR
NRHP Reference#: 82002916[1]
Added to NRHP: August 3, 1982

The Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church is a church in Detroit Michigan located at 8501 Woodward Avenue. Built in 1911 in the Gothic revival style, the architect was Sidney Badgley. It was used for some time as the Abyssinia Church of God in Christ.[2] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

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History

By 1908, the Presbyterians in Detroit recognized the need for a church to serve congregants located in what was then the "north" Woodward area.[3] Mrs. Tracy McGregor donated a lot along Woodward, and the cornerstone for the church was laid on January 1, 1910. The church was dedicated on June 23 of the next year.

Architecture

Woodward Avenue Presbyterian is an English Gothic-style church, faced with rough rock and trimmed with a contrasting limestone, and measuring 184 feet long by 104 feet wide.[3] The Woodward Avenue facade boasts a massive carved-stone entrance with a traceried stained glass window set above; two square towers flank the center entrance. Along the side, gabled transepts contain full-height traceried windows. A two-story educational wing, built at the same time as the main church building, abuts the rear.[3]

Today

Until the spring of 2010, Woodward Avenue Presbyterian was abandoned, and has fallen into disrepair. More recently the property has been purchased by a group looking to convert the building into a homeless shelter.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  2. ^ Abyssinia Church of God in Christ from Model D
  3. ^ a b c Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church from the State of Michigan
  4. ^ Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church from Detroiturbex.com

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St. John's Episcopal Church (2326) • Woodward Avenue Baptist Church (demolished) • First Unitarian Church (2870) • First Presbyterian Church (2930) • Temple Beth-El (3424) • Cathedral Church of St. Paul (4800) • Our Lady of the Rosary (5930) • Metropolitan United Methodist Church (8000) • First Baptist Church (8501) • Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church (8501) • North Woodward Congregational Church (8715) • Temple Beth-El (8801) • Saint Joseph's Episcopal Church (8830) • Central Woodward Christian Church (9000) • Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament (9844) • Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church (12375) • Trinity United Methodist Church (13100) • First United Methodist Church (16300) • Central United Methodist Church (23 East Adams) • First Congregational Church (33 Forest) • Highland Park Presbyterian Church (14 Cortland) • Mariners' Church (170 East Jefferson)
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