Photograph of Philetus S. Church House — Photograph by rossograph, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Church, Philetus S., House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Church House is a private house located on North Shore Road, 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of Payment Settlement on Sugar Island, Michigan. The building is the last structure from Church's Landing, a mid-19th century trading post and steamboat stop.”
Wikipedia article Philetus S. Church House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Chippewa County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. North Shore Rd., Sugar Island, 49783
When was it listed? November 1982
Category. building
Township. Sugar Island township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 82000495 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Church of Our Saviour, Friend of Children	1.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82000495 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chippewa County	All 26 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.