St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Church (Detroit)
St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Church is a church on the corner of Baldwin Avenue and St. Paul Avenue in Detroit , Michigan .
history
Belgian Catholics immigrated to the Detroit area in the late 1850s and settled in the eastern neighborhoods of Gratiot and Baldwin. A parish was dedicated to Karl Borromeo in 1886 . A timber-framed church soon expanded, and as Detroit grew, so did the parish. French, German, Irish, Scottish, and English joined the Belgian immigrants. In 1920 more than 3000 residents belonged to the community.
The two-story parish building with the attached school was planned and built in 1912 by Van Leyen & Schilling. In 1918 Peter Dederichs was commissioned to build a “building in the neo-Romanesque style for religious use”. Just four years after its completion, the building was expanded to meet the needs of the growing church community.
The church is still in use today, although the congregation has changed. The parish building still fulfills its original function, but the schoolhouse is rented to the Church of the Messiah .
description
The complex consists of four buildings, three of which are historically significant: the church itself, the rectory and the school.
The church is built of red and brown bricks, which sit on a base on white Bedford stone, the decorations are of the same stone. The church has a cruciform plan; it is 28 m wide and 55 m long. The design of the church is a neo-Romanesque with elements of arts and crafts . The front is flanked by two asymmetrically arranged towers with red roof tiles. The entrance is in a two-story part of the building with an archway and columns on both sides, above which there is a rose window . Rosettes are also built into the spandrels above the entrance archway, green bricks fill the spandrels and gable triangles of the front and side facades. The decorative brick pilasters around the central arch are derived from the Prairie Style or the Architecture des Arts and Crafts.
The high altar is designed in the baroque style. The organ is split in two to keep the rose window clear and is located above the main entrance.
The school and rectory were designed in the Prairie Style with some elements of Byzantine architecture .
Web links
- St. Charles Borromeo Parish from the Archdiocese of Detroit
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Parish Complex ( English , PDF; 117 kB) In: City of Detroit Planning and Development Department website . City of Detroit ITS / Communications and Creative Services Division. 2008. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 18, 2010.
- ^ A b Saint Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Parish ( English ) In: Detroit1701.org website . Reynolds Farley and Judy Mullin (University of Michigan). 2005-2008. Retrieved March 18, 2010.
- ^ A b Saint Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Parish Complex ( English ) In: Michigan's Historic Sites Online website . State of Michigan. 2001-2003. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 18, 2010.
Coordinates: 42 ° 21 ′ 18 ″ N , 83 ° 0 ′ 7 ″ W.