St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church
St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church, c. 1884
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Location2356 Vermont Avenue
Detroit, Michigan
Coordinates42°19′57″N 83°4′26″W / 42.33250°N 83.07389°W / 42.33250; -83.07389
Built1882
ArchitectScott, William & Co.; Wuestewald, Caspar
Architectural styleRomanesque Revival
DemolishedNovember 1996
NRHP reference No.89000487[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJune 09, 1989
Designated MSHSMarch 23, 1983[2]
Removed from NRHPAugust 8, 2022[3]

St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church was a Roman Catholic church located at 2356 Vermont Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was also known as St. Boniface-St. Vincent Roman Catholic Church. The church was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1983[2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989,[1] but was subsequently demolished in 1996.[4] The church was removed from the NRHP in 2022.[3][5]

History and significance

The German Catholic citizens of Detroit began moving to the west side in the 1860s, particularly along the Michigan Avenue corridor.[2] In 1867, Bishop Casper Borgess created St. Boniface parish to serve the German population on the west side. In 1873, a two-story, red brick Italianate rectory building was built for the parish at a cost of $6,000.[2] A stone church building was planned by the prominent local architect William M. Scott, and construction was completed in 1883 at a cost of $30,000.[2]

The parish was closed in 1989,[6] and the building was demolished in 1996.[7][5]

Description

St. Boniface Church was an eclectic example of Romanesque Revival and Ruskinian Gothic architecture. It was built in a cruciform shape from red brick and cream-painted wood, and featured a high nave roof, steeply gabled stone entry arches, and a central pavilion with recessed round arches.[2] The church had a square, louvered bell tower with an octagonal metal roof. The side walls were supported by heavy, stone-embellished buttresses.[2] The rectory was a two-story Italianate stone building, painted black. It had a modified hip-roof with cross-gabled dormers and a bracketed corniceline, an open gabled portico, and rectangular and round arch window enframements.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Saint Boniface Roman Catholic Church from the state of Michigan
  3. 1 2 "Weekly List 2022 08 12". National Park Service.
  4. ↑ "St. Boniface (Demolished)". City of Detroit.
  5. 1 2 Brian Murphy (November 14, 1996). "Landmark Tumbles". Detroit Free Press.
  6. ↑ Closed Parishes from the Archdiocese of Detroit
  7. ↑ Roman Godzak, Catholic Churches of Detroit, Arcadia Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7385-3235-5, p. 102
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