This is the oldest of Michigan’s churches. The red brick exterior is elaborately trimmed with brick corbeling, limestone cornice trim, and a limestone water table. Standing on a stone foundation made by a Finnish stonecutter, the gabled front presents a beautifully proportioned octagonal tower at one corner, with a brick parapet at the opposite, linked by a blind arcade.
Steve C. Martens and Ronald H. L. M. Ramsay, "St. Lawrence O’Toole Catholic Church", [Michigan, North Dakota], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/ND-01-NE1.
Buildings of North Dakota, Steve C. Martens and Ronald H. L. M. Ramsay. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 88-88.
If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.
SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.
