| St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church | |
| Location: | 2356 Vermont Avenue Detroit, Michigan |
| Coordinates: | 42.3325°N -83.0739°W |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Marker: | building |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 12 |
| Mapframe-Caption: | Interactive map |
| Built: | 1882 |
| Demolished: | November 1996 |
| Architect: | Scott, William & Co.; Wuestewald, Caspar |
| Architecture: | Romanesque Revival |
| Added: | June 09, 1989 |
| Delisted: | August 8, 2022[1] |
| Refnum: | 89000487 |
| Designated Other1: | Michigan State Historic Site |
| Designated Other1 Date: | March 23, 1983 |
| Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church was a Roman Catholic church located at 2356 Vermont Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was also known as St. Boniface-St. Vincent Roman Catholic Church. The church was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1983 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, but was subsequently demolished in 1996.[2] The church was removed from the NRHP in 2022.[1]
The German Catholic citizens of Detroit began moving to the west side in the 1860s, particularly along the Michigan Avenue corridor.[3] In 1867, Bishop Casper Borgess created St. Boniface parish to serve the German population on the west side. In 1873, a two-story, red brick Italianate rectory building was built for the parish at a cost of $6,000.[3] A stone church building was planned by the prominent local architect William M. Scott, and construction was completed in 1883 at a cost of $30,000.[3]
The parish was closed in 1989,[4] and the building was demolished in 1996.[5] [6]
St. Boniface Church was an eclectic example of Romanesque Revival and Ruskinian Gothic architecture. It was built in a cruciform shape from red brick and cream-painted wood, and featured a high nave roof, steeply gabled stone entry arches, and a central pavilion with recessed round arches.[3] The church had a square, louvered bell tower with an octagonal metal roof. The side walls were supported by heavy, stone-embellished buttresses.[3] The rectory was a two-story Italianate stone building, painted black. It had a modified hip-roof with cross-gabled dormers and a bracketed corniceline, an open gabled portico, and rectangular and round arch window enframements.[3]