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Saint Paul Catholic Church Complex

Built in 1891 (French Gothic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Saint Paul Catholic Church Complex is located at 157 Lake Shore Road in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. The group includes a French Gothic-style church, a Neo-Tudor rectory, a Colonial Revival parish hall, a Neo-Tudor school building, and an Elizabethan Revival convent.”
Wikipedia article Saint Paul Catholic Church (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1891, French Gothic architecture.

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

The listing

Address. 157 Lake Shore Rd., Grosse Pointe Farms, 48236
When was it listed? June 1994
Category. building
City. Grosse Pointe Farms city
When was it built? 1891
Architectural style. French Gothic architecture
National Register reference number. 94000621 - 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.

Fires near this property

46 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Saint Paul Catholic Church Complex between 2018 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	18
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034676 - 2019
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034155 - 2019
6 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0027928 - 2019
30 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST CLAIR SHORES FD 0005454 - 2018
25 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0030316 - 2019
24 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0030178 - 2019
14 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0029062 - 2019
13 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0028947 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Academy of the Sacred Heart	0.2 miles	1987
Paul Harvey Deming House	0.2 miles	1996
Christ Church Chapel	0.4 miles	1993
Grosse Pointe Memorial Church	0.5 miles	1993
Grosse Pointe High School	0.5 miles	1993
Russell A. Alger Jr. House	0.6 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000621 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 396 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.