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TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (New Mt. Moriah Baptist Church) 13100 Woodward Avenue Highland Park, Wayne County, Michigan PHOTOGRAPHER: Charles C. Cotman DATE: November, 1980 NEGATIVE: Michigan History Division Michigan Dept. of State Lansing, Michigan 48918 VIEW: Camera facing NE PHOTO: 51 of 53
Trinity United Methodist began as a mission church of the Cass United Methodist Church of Detroit to serve the Highland Park membership who found it difficult to travel the eight miles to the Detroit mother church. Dedicated on October 5, 1923, the structure was the home of Methodism's largest Highland Park congregation until 1978. New Mt. Moriah Baptist has occupied the former Methodist church since March, 1979. The 1922-23 Trinity Church is a well preserved, locally significant example of the Neo-Gothic movement in church architecture.
The church, measuring 125 feet long and 110 feet wide, is located on the northeast corner of Woodward Avenue at Buena Vista. It is a gray limestone, Neo-Gothic-style church built in 1922-23. The side facing Woodward Avenue is the principal facade. It is composed of a gabled, two-story entrance pavilion containing a recessed main entrance surmounted by a traceried, arched window, flanked by a tall flat-roofed, crenelated tower with louvered belfry on the south and a one-story extension with a plain, bay window on the north. The structure is extremely austere in design depending upon the contrast between the smooth limestone cladding and the sparingly used stylized Gothic carving. The only other architecturally articulated elevation faces Buena Vista Avenue. This side is dominated by the shallow, gabled transept with its large, arched, traceried window. A square, projecting, entrance vestibule makes the transition from the church to the attached chapel. This is a rockfaced granite, Gothic building with an octagonal apse with large, Gothic-arched, multi-paned windows.
George D. Mason (1856-1948) of Detroit, Michigan
NRHP Ref# 82002921 • Data from National Park Service • Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0
TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (New Mt. Moriah Baptist Church) 13100 Woodward Avenue Highland Park, Wayne County, Michigan PHOTOGRAPHER: Charles C. Cotman DATE: November, 1980 NEGATIVE: Michigan History Division Michigan Dept. of State Lansing, Michigan 48918 VIEW: Camera facing NE PHOTO: 51 of 53
Public Domain (Michigan Filing)
The New Mt. Moriah Baptist Church is located at 13100 Woodward Avenue in Highland Park, Michigan in Metro Detroit. It was built in 1922 as the Trinity United Methodist Church, in the Gothic Revival style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.Trinity United Methodist was built by the Cass United Methodist Church of Detroit, as a mission church to serve membership in Highland Park who lived too far to travel the eight miles to Cass United. The structure served as a Methodist church from its dedication in 1923 until 1978. In the 1950s the church had a mission for Japanese people.After Trinity left the building in 1978, the next year the New Mt. Moriah Baptist Church congregation moved into the building. New Mt. Moriah was established in 1952. As of 2021, the church remained in the building, led by Rev. Eddie Cooper, Jr., Pastor and First Lady Carlethia Cooper.The former Trinity United Methodist Church is a gray limestone, Gothic Revival church measuring 125 feet by 110 feet. The main facade has a gabled, two-story entrance pavilion with a recessed entrance located between a plain extension and a crenelated tower with belfry. On the side, there is a shallow, gabled transept with a large window, and a projecting entrance between the church and attached chapel.• Mayer, Albert. Ethnic groups in Detroit, 1951. Wayne University Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 1951.• Content re-posted to: Feinstein, Otto. Ethnic Communities of Greater Detroit. Monteith College, Wayne State University, 1970. p. 159.• Michigan portalOther landmarks • Highland Park Ford PlantThis list is incomplete.
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