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St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

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St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at 530-540 Elizabeth Street. The minister, Edward D. Kelly hired the Detroit architectural firm of Spier & Rohns who designed the building in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The cornerstone was placed in 1897, and the church was dedicated in 1899.

The building is built of local fine grain rough cut granite, on a cruciform plan. It seats a thousand people.

In 1927 Fr. Command, then the pastor of the church, traveled to the Vatican. In the course of that trip he visited Padua and ordered a statue of St. Thomas that was delivered and placed in a niche high in the gable four years later.

The church is listed as a Michigan State Historic Site.

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