House of worship, Chadsey Condon, since 1891
Historic Motor City Missionary Baptist Church
Standing and open
- Opened
- 1891
- Style
- Victorian Gothic
- Standing
- 135 years
Designed by Spier & Rohns
Historic Motor City Missionary Baptist Church has stood on Twenty-eighth St. in Chadsey Condon since 1891, 135 years and counting. Who built it, what makes it special and how to see it for yourself.
Historic Motor City Missionary Baptist Church today, from the street
What is there now
Standing and open
We checked building permits, sales, listings and the city's blight and demolition files on October 25, 2026. Nothing new at this address in the last two years.
The story
Historic Motor City Missionary Baptist Church opened in 1891, as Detroit's lumber, stove and shipbuilding money went into brick and stone.
Credit the design to Spier & Rohns, in the Victorian Gothic style.
It is still open, and still part of daily life in the city.
Go see it at 4461 Twenty-eighth St. Photos never get the scale right.
Timeline
- 1891 Built Designed by Spier & Rohns
- 2026 Today 135 years and still standing
Where it is
4461 Twenty-eighth St.
On this map
- 1 Historic Motor City Missionary Baptist Church This place
- 2 Gethsemane Evangelical Lutheran Church 100 ft
- 3 Sill School 0.3 mi
- 4 St. Francis D'Assisi Catholic Church 0.5 mi
- 5 San Telmo Cigar Manufacturing Company Plant No. 2 0.5 mi
- 6 West Side Dom Polski 0.6 mi
- 7 Columbian School 0.6 mi
- 8 Max Jacob House 0.7 mi
- 9 McGraw Hotel 0.7 mi
Street map from OpenStreetMap contributors
Who made it
Architect
Spier & RohnsArchitectural firm, Detroit, founded 1884. Designed Gethsemane Evangelical Lutheran Church (1891) and 7 more in Metro Detroit
Also by Spier & Rohns
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Ecumenical Theological Seminary
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Dunbar Memorial Hospital
Monument, built 1892, Romanesque Revival
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First Unitarian Church
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Floral Clock at Water Works Park
Monument, built 1893
Photo: Detroit Publishing Company, no known restrictions, via Library of Congress
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Globe Tobacco Building
Building, built 1889, Richardsonian Romanesque, by William Scott & Co.
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Around the block
It is in Chadsey Condon. See the neighborhood's homes, pros and story.
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Gethsemane Evangelical Lutheran Church
House of worship, built 1891, Carpenter Gothic, by Spier & Rohns
Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
100 ft
- Sill School School, built 1906, Arts & Crafts, by Malcomson & Higginbotham, demolished 1974 0.3 mi
- St. Francis D'Assisi Catholic Church House of worship, built 1905, Italian Renaissance, by Kastler & Hunter 0.5 mi
- San Telmo Cigar Manufacturing Company Plant No. 2 Building, built 1910, by Albert Kahn 0.5 mi
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West Side Dom Polski
Building, built 1917, by /architects/joseph-gwizdowski
Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
0.6 mi
- Columbian School School, built 1893, by Malcomson & Higginbotham, demolished 1980 0.6 mi
- Max Jacob House Built 1916, French Villa, in Midtown homes 0.7 mi
- McGraw Hotel Hotel, built 1925, demolished 1987 0.7 mi
Photo credits
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- Historic Motor City Missionary Baptist Church from the street today Photo: Street View, 2026
Sources
Facts only, gathered from these sources. The story above is written by Rebuild Detroit. Every photo names its author and license where it appears.