 
Maxcarey
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Username: Maxcarey
Post Number: 26
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 6:11 pm: |    |
This church is located at 17th and Rose near the Michigan Central Train Depot. It is in use currently by a church that began in 1998, but the cornerstone says the structure was built in 1870. Any help would be appreciated.
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Mikem
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Username: Mikem
Post Number: 3027
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 8:15 pm: | |
St Paul Evangelical Lutheran |
Maxcarey
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Username: Maxcarey
Post Number: 27
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 8:19 pm: | |
Thanks Mike! Do you happen to know when it stopped being St. Paul's? |
Mikem
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Username: Mikem
Post Number: 3028
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 8:20 pm: | |
No, but give me a few minutes and I'll try to narrow it down for you. |
Livernoisyard
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Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 2438
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 8:22 pm: | |
Isn't it now some kind of Mexican church? There was a faded Spanish sign on it a few years ago. |
Mikem
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Username: Mikem
Post Number: 3029
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 8:46 pm: | |
I have it listed as St Paul German Evangelical Church in 1940, but nothing after that (the next closest source in time being 1946). |
Rayls
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Username: Rayls
Post Number: 3
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 10:21 pm: | |
The church is listed as St Paul's German Evangelical in the 1880 city directory. The pastor's home and a small school are next door. All of this property sold not many years ago for under 50G. |
Livernoisyard
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Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 2442
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 10:35 pm: | |
That church is very close to the coach yard (18th Street?) for the Michigan Central, where the passenger cars were parked and serviced. Today, it's mostly concrete and weeds behind a chain-link fence. There's a tiny city park near there. |