Holy Family Church

Holy Family Church is a Michigan historical marker in Detroit, Wayne County, dedicated 1990.

641 Walter P. Chrysler Highway, Detroit

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In the early twentieth century immigrants from southern Italy and Sicily settled in Detroit’s northeast side. They first worshipped in a chapel at Saints Peter and Paul Church. In 1907 Father Giovanni Boschi arrived in Detroit and began a campaign to build a church for the Italian community. In 1908 Bishop John S. Foley canonized the church and named it Holy Family. Completed in November 1910, the Italian Renaissance basilica was designed by Edward A. Schilling of Detroit.

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Historical maps covering this location

1873 · (Map of Wayne County, Michigan) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Plan of Detroit (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1897 · Detroit, vicinity. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1903 · Detroit and Vicinity. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1905 · Detroit, Michigan (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Detroit and Vicinity, 1903, covering the location of Holy Family Church, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Detroit and Vicinity, 1903, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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