St. Theresa of Avila Roman Catholic Church

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St. Theresa of Avila Roman Catholic Parish Complex
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Location8666 Quincy Street
Detroit, Michigan
Coordinates 42°21′49″N83°7′11″W / 42.36361°N 83.11972°W / 42.36361; -83.11972 Coordinates: 42°21′49″N83°7′11″W / 42.36361°N 83.11972°W / 42.36361; -83.11972
Built1919
ArchitectVan Leyen, Schilling & Keough, Edward Schilling
Architectural styleLate 19th And 20th century Revivals, Romanesque Revival
NRHP reference No. 89000786 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 14, 1989

The St. Theresa of Avila Roman Catholic Church is a church located at 8666 Quincy Street in Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1]

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School (Allen Academy)
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Rectory

The St. Theresa of Avila Roman Catholic Parish Complex consists of the church, rectory, school, and convent. [2] All of the buildings are essentially Neo-Romanesque in character, and are constructed of dark red brick trimmed with Indiana limestone.

The church is in the Italian Romanesque style, with Byzantine and Art Deco influences. It has a gable front facade with towers at the sides. [2] The entrance is through a five-arched, two-story Romanesque arcaded portico. Above the entrance is a round window flanked with arched niches. [2]

The school is a three-story I-shaped building; the rectory is a five-bay center entrance house with Romanesque Revival details. [2] The three-story convent building, which was built during the Great Depression, features more modest ornamentation. A central pavilion containing the entrance divides the building into three elements. [2]

Significance

The St. Theresa of Avila Parish was built as an Irish-American parish, built at a time when the prosperity of the community was such that this magnificent complex could be afforded. [2] The need for this building reflects the population boom in the city brought about by the automobile industry. [2]

The parish was closed in 1989; [3] the Allen Academy, a K-12 charter school, used the school building from 1999 to 2016. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Saint Theresa of Avila Roman Catholic Parish Complex from the state of Michigan
  3. "Closed Parishes | Archdiocese of Detroit". www.aod.org. Archived from the original on May 27, 2015.
  4. "A Detroit charter shuts down. Is this what school accountability looks like?". July 19, 2016.