St. Theresa of Avila Roman Catholic Church
St. Theresa of Avila Roman Catholic Parish Complex | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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Location | 8666 Quincy Street Detroit, Michigan |
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Coordinates | 42°21′49″N 83°7′11″W / 42.36361°N 83.11972°WCoordinates: 42°21′49″N 83°7′11″W / 42.36361°N 83.11972°W |
Built | 1919 |
Architect | Van Leyen, Schilling & Keough, Edward Schilling |
Architectural style | Late 19th And 20th century Revivals, Romanesque Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 89000786[1] |
Added to NRHP | July 14, 1989 |
The St. Theresa of Avila Roman Catholic Church is a church located at 8666 Quincy Street in Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
Description[]
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The St. Theresa of Avila Roman Catholic Parish Complex consists of the church, rectory, school, and convent.[2] All of the buildings are essentially Neo-Romanesque in character, and are constructed of dark red brick trimmed with Indiana limestone.
The church is in the Italian Romanesque style, with Byzantine and Art Deco influences. It has a gable front facade with towers at the sides.[2] The entrance is through a five-arched, two-story Romanesque arcaded portico. Above the entrance is a round window flanked with arched niches.[2]
The school is a three-story I-shaped building; the rectory is a five-bay center entrance house with Romanesque Revival details.[2] The three-story convent building, which was built during the Great Depression, features more modest ornamentation. A central pavilion containing the entrance divides the building into three elements.[2]
Significance[]
The St. Theresa of Avila Parish was built as an Irish-American parish, built at a time when the prosperity of the community was such that this magnificent complex could be afforded.[2] The need for this building reflects the population boom in the city brought about by the automobile industry.[2]
The parish was closed in 1989;[3] the Allen Academy, a K-12 charter school, used the school building from 1999 to 2016.[4]
References[]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f g Saint Theresa of Avila Roman Catholic Parish Complex from the state of Michigan
- ^ http://www.aod.org/parishes/sacramental-records/closed-parishes.aspx
- ^ "A Detroit charter shuts down. Is this what school accountability looks like?". July 19, 2016.
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- Roman Catholic churches in Detroit
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- Churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
- Former Roman Catholic church buildings in Michigan
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Michigan
- Roman Catholic churches completed in 1919
- National Register of Historic Places in Detroit
- 1919 establishments in Michigan
- 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States