Highland Park Presbyterian Church (Michigan)

Highland Park Presbyterian Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Michigan State Historic Site
Highland Park Presbyterian Church from across Woodward
Location	14 Cortland Street Highland Park, Michigan
Coordinates
Built	1910
Architect	Sidney Rose Badgley; William H. Nicklas
Architectural style	Other
MPS	Religious Structures of Woodward Ave. TR
NRHP Reference #	82002920
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	August 3, 1982
Designated MSHS	August 12, 1983

The Park United Presbyterian Church is located at 14 Cortland Street (at the intersection with Woodward Avenue) in Highland Park, Michigan. It was built in 1910 as the Highland Park Presbyterian Church, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1983. It is a member of The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

History

The Highland Park Presbyterian Church was established in 1893 as a mission church of the First Presbyterian Church of Detroit. Three years later a small chapel was built on the site of the present church. However, the congregation grew to over two hundred members, and the present building was constructed from 1910 to 1911.

Architecture

The church is 110 feet long and 85 feet wide, and is constructed in a Tudor Gothic style from red brick with limestone trim and red terra cotta roof tiles. The main section of the church contains an oversized stained-glass window and a square, buttressed, flat-roofed, corner tower with a louvered belfry is located on the south side. A gabled wooden porch covers the entrance. Set back from the main block is the gabled educational wing. A parsonage, built in 1905, sits behind the church on Cortland Street.