Our Lady of the Rosary Church (Detroit)

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Our Lady of the Rosary Roman Catholic Church
(St. Joseph's Episcopal)
Viewed from across Woodward
LocationDetroit, Michigan
Built1883, 1896
ArchitectMalcomson & Higginbotham
Architectural styleOther, Romanesque Revival
MPSReligious Structures of Woodward Ave. TR
NRHP reference No.82002908[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 3, 1982

Our Lady of the Rosary Roman Catholic Church, located at 5930 Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, began in 1907. It was originally built as St. Joseph's Episcopal Church from 1893 to 1896 and is an historic Romanesque Revival church complex. On August 3, 1982, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 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. Vananthwerp 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 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 vestibule; it is surmounted by a large rose window.[2]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ a b c d e State of Michigan
  3. ^ Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church/ St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church from Detroit1701.org

References

  • Hill, Eric J. and John Gallagher (2002). AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3120-3.
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