Trinity Episcopal Church (Detroit, Michigan)

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Trinity Episcopal Church
Trinity Episcopal Church Detroit.jpg
Location 1519 Martin Luther King Boulevard
Detroit, Michigan
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Built 1890
Architect George D. Mason & Zachariah Rice
Architectural style English Gothic
NRHP Reference # 80001929[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP May 22, 1980
Designated MSHS August 3, 1979[2]

Trinity Episcopal Church is located at 1519 Martin Luther King Boulevard in the Woodbridge Historic District of Detroit, Michigan. The church was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1979[2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1] It is now known as Spirit of Hope.

History

The Epiphany Reformed Episcopal parish was founded in 1878 as a place where Anglicans not pledged to the Episcopal bishop of Michigan might worship.[3] In 1880, the congregation built a small frame church, and in 1889 changed their name to Trinity Episcopal.[3]

James E. Scripps, owner of The Detroit News, was a member of the Trinity congregation. Scripps was born in London,[3] and developed a fascination with historic English churches. He commissioned sketches of churches in England,[3] and in 1893 put up $55,000 to build the current church building.[4]

In 1896, Trinity members voted to unite their church with the Episcopal diocese of Michigan.[3] In 1926, the parish house, which includes a chapel, dining room, gymnasium, offices and classrooms was constructed.[4] As the neighborhood around Trinity changed, the church reached out to new constituents, including the Irish community.[5] However, the declining population of the surrounding area led to a decline in the congregation.[5]

In 2001, the nearby Jeffries Housing Projects were torn down; the Faith Memorial Lutheran Church, founded in 1956 to serve the community, found itself with a drastically reduced congregation.[5] The congregations of Faith Memorial Lutheran and Trinity Episcopal began exploring the concept of merging, and in April 2006, the two joined to become the Spirit of Hope.[5]

In 2007, Kathleen Brennan began the Spirit of Hope Urban Farm which was featured in the September/October 2011 Natural Home & Garden magazine.[6]

Detail of the exterior

Architecture

James E. Scripps commissioned architects Mason & Rice to design this English Gothic-style church.[4] The floorplan of Trinity Episcopal Church is laid out in a cruciform pattern. The walls are two feet thick Trenton limestone, and the root is sheathed with copper.[4] Smooth brown limestone used as trim offsets the white limestone used for the bulk of the walls.[3] The 85-foot-tall (26 m) central, supported by stone arches and buttresses, tower contains ten bells. The exterior holds over two hundred carvings, including gargoyles that serve as water drains.[4] Inside the sanctuary, ten stone angels supporting the nave beams face inward; several windows contain stained glass, including a Tiffany, a LaFarge, and a window over the altar was created by Franz Mayer & Co. of Germany.[4] A 1200-pipe organ manufactured by the Jardine Company of New York City is also inside.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Trinity Episcopal Church/ Spirit of Hope from Detroit1701.org
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Historic Building from Spirit of Hope
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 History from Spirit of Hope
  6. ↑ Greening Detroit: Spirit of Hope Urban Farm Brings Bounty to the Motor City, Kelli B. Kavanaugh, Natural Home & Garden, September/October 2011 (retrieved 28 January 2012)

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