  Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5633 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.228.208.6 |
Monday already? P.D.J. | ||
Kilgore_south Member Username: Kilgore_south Post Number: 96 Registered: 05-2005 Posted From: 24.176.20.117 |
Beautiful place indeed. Small spelling correction - name of the church is St. Columba, not Columbia. Columba was a 6th-century Irish saint who also helped bring Christianity to Scotland, FYI. Not sure what happened to St. Columba's. You'd think they moved out to the burbs somewhere, but as far as I can remember there are no Episcopal churches called St. Columba anywhere in Metro D. Perhaps they merged with another parish and dropped the name. It's unusual for a parish to just fizzle out of existence entirely, although it does happen. | ||
1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 881 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 209.104.146.146 |
Fantastic building and photo; thanks! | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5634 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 209.216.150.127 |
Woops! Thanks K_S, I have corrected the typo. Interesting that the parrish has vanished. | ||
Quinn Member Username: Quinn Post Number: 761 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 64.139.64.80 |
I've always loved that building. There are several commercial buildings on that strip (from the bend at that new shopping plaza in Detroit all the way to GP) that are outstanding architecturally...lots of detail. I do expect to see that building being torn down shorly...I'm sure we need a burger king there. ;P | ||
Pacypacy_ Member Username: Pacypacy_ Post Number: 100 Registered: 05-2006 Posted From: 136.181.195.84 |
Are those huge concrete ashtrays out in front of the building? | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3953 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.171.136.201 |
No, horse troughs. Thanks Andrew, nice photo of something from your very own heritage. Long live the Scots. jjaba. | ||
Mccarch Member Username: Mccarch Post Number: 70 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 70.225.113.97 |
St Columba gave up the ghost as an Episcopal parish after Christmas 2004, and closed. Besides the parish hall on Jefferson, the church building on Manistique is still there, and it's even better than the parish hall. Both were done by the best-named architect to ever come down the Detroit pike: Lancelot Sukert. | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 575 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.189.188.28 |
That's a very nice building, but (shame on me) the first thing I thought of when I saw it was "....put some railroad tracks in front of it and you have a nifty station/divisional headquarters....." | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 3461 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.208.127.19 |
Too bad a building like that couldnt be built today. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5636 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.70.118.220 |
Mccarch, Thanks for the architect info. |
