Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Petoskey, Michigan)

Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (now known as the Chapel of Our Guardian Angels) is a historic church located at 810 Petoskey Street in Petoskey, Michigan. It added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
Location810 Petoskey St., Petoskey, Michigan
Coordinates45°22′11″N 84°57′27″W
Area0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built1892
Architectural styleLate Victorian
MPSPetoskey MRA
NRHP reference No.86002086[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 10, 1986

History

The Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church was erected 1892 for the Zion Evangelical Church congregation. The congregation used the church until 1949,[2] when they moved to a new church structure located on US Highway 131.[3] In 1951, the Petoskey Mennonite Church purchased the building; the congregation later changed its name to the Hilltop Mennonite Fellowship. The Mennonite congregation used the building until 2015, when the congregation closed.[4] The building was then purchased by the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Petoskey, who began using it in 2016.[5]

Description

The Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church is a one-story Late Victorian frame structure with some Gothic Revival elements. The building has a front gable roof and a rectangular tower with a peaked polygonal cap. It has eight-pane rectangular windows with corniced heads set in to the side walls. A gabled entryway addition is at the rear of one side wall.[3]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod (1949), The Lutheran Witness, 68, Concordia Publishing House
  3. Julie A. Wortman (December 1985), National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form: Historic Resources of Petoskey (Partial Inventory: Historic and Architectural Properties)
  4. Linda Boyer, Report of Closure, Hilltop Fellowship, Petoskey, MI (PDF)
  5. Oct. 2nd Move to the Chapel of Our Guardian Angels, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Petoskey, September 9, 2016
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