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First Presbyterian's move

Gothic Revival in the "picnic grove"

by Grace Shackman

posted 10/17/2011

"When the Session [the church governing body] decided to tear it down and build a church way out there, there was a lot of criticism," remembered First Presbyterian Church member Paul Lowry in a 2001 interview. In 1926, "way out there" was the site of the old Demmon house at 1432 Washtenaw--just east of the University of Michigan campus.

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