Our Lady of the Rosary Roman Catholic Church (Detroit, Michigan)

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St. Joseph's Episcopal Church
Saint Joseph's Episcopal Church1893.jpg
Viewed from across Woodward
Location 5930 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, Michigan
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Built 1883, 1896
Architect William G. Malcomson & William E. Higginbotham
Architectural style Romanesque Revival
MPS Religious Structures of Woodward Ave. TR
NRHP Reference # 82002908[1]
Added to NRHP August 3, 1982

The Our Lady of the Rosary Roman Catholic Church is located at 5930 Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was originally built as St. Joseph's Episcopal Church - from 1893 to 1896 - and is a historic Romanesque Revival church complex. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 3, 1982.[1]

History

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 Ford service drive).[2] The chapel, consecrated in 1884, soon proved too small, and a larger church, completed in 1896, was erected facing Woodward.[2]

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. VanAntwerp in 1907, and Our Lady of the Rosary Roman Catholic Church was established.[2] 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]

Architecture

The church, built from 1893 to 1896, is a massive rock-faced, cross-gable-roofed, sandstone Romanesque Revival structure.[2] The gabled façade 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 vestibule; it is surmounted by a large rose window.[2]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church/ St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church from Detroit1701.org

Further reading

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