Tushiyah United Hebrew School-Scott Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church

The former Tushiyah United Hebrew School of Detroit at Kirby and St. Antione Streets meets national register criterion A as the headquarters of the United Hebrew Schools of Detroit and as the largest of five United Hebrew Schools buildings in use during the early years of the schools in Detroit between 1919 and 1930. It housed the school and the offices during the period from 1922 to 1929; by the latter date the Jewish community was abandoning the area. The building also meets criterion A as the home of the Scott Memorial Methodist Episcopal (later United Methodist) Church, Detroit's first African American church of the mainline Methodist Episcopal denomination, founded in 1909. The church purchased the former school building in 1929 and occupied it as their church until 1970. The Tushiyah United Hebrew School of Detroit also meets criterion C as an important work of Detroit architect Isadore M. Lewis, one of several Jewish architects in the city. Lewis seems to have specialized in work for Jewish clients during a nearly fifty-year practice in Detroit from 1916 to at least 1960.

The Commercial Style, two-story former Tushiyah United Hebrew School was constructed in 1922 and stands on the northeast corner of East Kirby and St. Antoine Streets, about three miles north of downtown Detroit. The tan brick building with cast stone trim faces south on Kirby. The surrounding neighborhood began developing in the 1890s. The adjacent houses on Kirby Street were primarily constructed in the 1910s. The school is set back from Kirby Street with a flat, grassy lawn containing large evergreen trees and overgrown shrubs. The St. Antoine side of the building abuts the sidewalk and there are regularly spaced trees planted along the street in the tree lawn. The building's original L-shaped footprint is one-hundred-and-two feet by one-hundred-and-thirty-four feet. A one-story utilitarian addition was constructed about 1950 across the back of the property creating a seventy foot by forty-four foot grass courtyard that opens to the east. The building features decorative brick work and subtle limestone and cast stone banding, medallions and reliefs, and has groups of wood one-over-one double-hung windows, with transoms, spaced equally on each elevation. The arched roof over the main section of the building is not visible behind the tall brick parapet walls.