Kolping Park and Chapel

The Kolping Park and Chapel was designed to provide a reflective, pastoral environment in which travelers as well as the local farmers could find peace and serenity. The chapel, created by the Reverend Father Wuest and the members of the Catholic Kolping Society of America, Detroit Branch, is unique for the architectural design, material and workmanship of Father Wuest. Finally, the Kolping Park and Chapel are significant for its association with the life of the Reverend Father Wuest, who is responsible for the architectural design and the collection of the building materials in the chapel.

The Kolping Park includes its famous wayside chapel along with a shrine to Blessed Father Adolph Kolping, a pavilion, dance hall, rifle range, picnic shelter, parade grounds, playground, soccer field and parking lot all contained within a nineteen-acre parcel of beautifully landscaped land. The chapel, dedicated in 1932, is a one-story, front-gable, small rectangular building approximately forty-two-by-twenty-five feet oriented on the northeast-southwest axis. It sits on a cinder block and concrete block foundation with the use of shells, coral, fieldstone, granite, marble, sandstone and brick from all over the world on the walls on both the interior and exterior creating a handsome mosaic pattern.