St. James Episcopal Church
St. James Episcopal Church, Carpenter Gothic church in Grosse Ile Township, Michigan.
The church features vertical board walls, pointed arches, steeply pitched roofs, and a frame steeple that rises above East River Road.
Former slave Lisette Denison Forth bequeathed $3,000 from her estate for the construction of this church, which was completed in 1868.
The building includes an 11-foot Tiffany glass window installed in 1898, donated by Col. John Biddle in memory of his mother Susan.
The original 1867 structure now functions as a chapel adjacent to the larger church building constructed in 1958 on the same site.
Red wooden doors at the entrance stand as a memorial to Lisette Denison Forth, the first Black woman to own land in Michigan.
Location: Grosse Ile Township
Architects: Gordon W. Lloyd
Architectural style: Carpenter Gothic
GPS coordinates: 42.12472,-83.14250
Latest update: September 23, 2025 14:24
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