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Unknown Builder (1834)

St. Paul's Episcopal Church [1828]
Woodward Avenue & Larned
Detroit, MI

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


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1850 - St. Paul's Episcopal, located on the east side of Woodward between Larned and Congress; built in 1828 and Gothicized in 1836; demolished 1852. (Photograph from an archival source: Digital archives of the Detroit Public Library, submitted by William M. Worden/William M. Worden)

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2013-05-26 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by John Speller, using information found in <em>Polk's Directory of Detroit, 1837</em>, p. 26.. -- "The inside contains three galleries, the pulpit and orchestra in the rear, and a superior organ with four stops.� Additionally on p. 95 the Directory lists the organist as Geo. L. Whitney. This would have been George Lewis Whitney (1807-1867), publisher of the "Detroit Advertiser." Furthermore, in the "Journal of the First Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Michigan, held at Monroe, M.T.," May 3d., 1834, p. 18, the Curate, the Rev. Addison Searles, reports that the congregation "have a new organ, nearly ready for use, which the church shall have enlarged." St. Paul's Church is now the Cathedral. -Database Manager

2021-02-20 - This building was demolished c. 1852 when a new church on Congress at Shelby was built. This building was never the cathedral. -William M. Worden


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