page_title: First Unitarian Church of Detroit
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: First Unitarian Church of Detroit / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Stained Glass Windows of the First Unitarian Church of Detroit, Michigan at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
context_page_description: The First Unitarian Church of Detroit was located at 2870 Woodward Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. Built between 1889 and 1890, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was destroyed by fire on May 10, 2014.
context_section_description: Designed by the architectural firm of Donaldson and Meier, the First Unitarian Church of Detroit was a Romanesque Revival-style church built of red sandstone. After its remodeling during the 1936 widening of Woodward, it remained substantially as built. The gabled façade had a great expanse of masonry; a simple four-bay porch with a shed roof and stone Romanesque columns spanning the first floor. There was a two-story hip-roofed projection at the corner, and a side porch with stone piers covering a side entrance.
  Most of the original John La Farge stained glass windows that faced Woodward Avenue survive in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, which acquired the work in 1959.
caption: Stained glass windows of the First Unitarian Church, on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts
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