St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at 530-540 Elizabeth Street. The minister, Edward D. Kelly hired the Detroit architectural firm of Spier & Rohns who designed the building in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The cornerstone was placed in 1897, and the church was dedicated in 1899.[1]

The building is built of local fine grain rough cut granite, on a cruciform plan. It seats a thousand people.[2]

In 1927 Fr. Command, then the pastor of the church, traveled to the Vatican. In the course of that trip he visited Padua and ordered a statue of St. Thomas that was delivered and placed in a niche high in the gable four years later.[3]

The church is listed as a Michigan State Historic Site.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Reade, Marjorie; Wineberg, Susan (1992). Historic Buildings: Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ann Arbor Historical Foundation and Ann Arbor Historic District Commission. pp. 48–49. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
  2. ↑ Eckert, Kathryn Bishop (1993). Buildings of Michigan. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 142.
  3. ↑ Kvaran, Einar Einarsson (1989). An Annotated Inventory of Outdoor Sculpture in Washtenaw County (Independent Study/Masters Thesis). Ypsilanti: Eastern Michigan University. p. AA16.

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