St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church

St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Michigan historical marker in Eastpointe, Macomb County, dedicated 2001.

23000 Gratiot Ave, Eastpointe

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Erin Township’s German immigrants first worshipped together in a log church amid an oak forest in 1846. The following year the Reverend John Friedrich Winkler helped organize St. Peter’s church as a “country church” near Detroit. This is the third building occupied by the congregation. Dedicated in 1950, the church and school were designed by Merritt and Cole and are fine mid-twentieth-century interpretations of the Neo-Gothic style. The church bells were brought from the congregation’s second church, which stood two blocks south of here from 1859 to 1950. The adjacent cemetery was dedicated in 1888.

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1832 · Ohio Pocket Map (Mitchell, 1832) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1850 · Ohio (Cowperthwait, 1850) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1853 · Map of the surveyed part of Michigan (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1853 · Western Tourist And Emigrant Guide (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1854 · A map of the surveyed part of Michigan / by John Farmer ; engraved by S. Stiles & Co. (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Map of the surveyed part of Michigan, 1853, covering the location of St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Map of the surveyed part of Michigan, 1853, covering this location. Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church

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