page_title: Saint Elizabeth's Church (Tecumseh, Michigan)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Saint Elizabeth's Church (Tecumseh, Michigan) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Tecumseh Area Historical Museum
context_page_description: Saint Elizabeth's Church, also known as the Old Stone Church, is a historic church located at 302 East Chicago Boulevard in downtown Tecumseh in Lenawee County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site on May 8, 1986 and later added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 13, 1986.
  The building was purchased by the City of Tecumseh in 1982 and formally dedicated as the Tecumseh Area Historical Museum in 1986. It continues to serve that purpose.
context_section_description: Saint Elizabeth's Church housed the first Catholic church built in the Protestant-dominated Tecumseh.  Amid controversy, the Catholic church was built in 1913 with stone hauled from nearby fields by parishioner.  When church membership outgrew the original structure, the congregation moved to a new facility in 1952.  The Church of Christ purchased the building in 1954 but vacated by 1972 to a larger facility themselves.  From 1976 to 1982, the building served a commercial function as a stained glass studio.  In 1982, the city of Tecumseh purchased and restored the building for the Historical Society of Tecumseh.
caption: The church in early springtime
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