page_title: Saint Paul Catholic Church (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan)
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Saint Paul Catholic Church (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan) / Architecture
context_page_description: The Saint Paul Catholic Church Complex is located at 157 Lake Shore Rd. in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. The group includes a French Gothic-style church, a Neo-Tudor rectory, a Colonial Revival parish hall, a Neo-Tudor school building, and an Elizabethan Revival convent. The complex was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1992 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
context_section_description: The present church building was designed by Harry J. Rill and was completed in 1899 at a cost of just over $23,000.  The older frame structure was used as the parish hall until it was dismantled in 1914.  The rectory was added in 1911, and the original portions of the school and convent buildings, designed by Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, were built in 1927.  Additions to the school were completed in 1951 and 1953.  The parish house, originally built around 1900 for former Detroit Mayor Alexander Lewis, was purchased by the parish in 1959.
  The Saint Paul Catholic Church Complex sits on a long, narrow plot of land between Lake Shore Road and Grosse Pointe Boulevard.  The church is constructed of brick and stone, and is designed in the French Gothic Revival style.  The stained glass windows were made by Fredericks & Wolfram Art Glass Company of Detroit (installed in 1901) and Franz Mayer & Company of Munich, Germany, (installed in 1924).
caption: St. Paul Catholic Church
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