St. Albertus Roman Catholic Church is a church located at 4231 St. Aubin Street in
Detroit,
Michigan in the Forest Park neighborhood area on the city's central East side. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974 and listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
In 1870, aided by Father Simon Wieczorek, the Polish community took steps to organize their own parish. They organized the St. Stanislaus Kostka Society and, with the blessing then-administrator
Bishop Caspar Borgess, began to collect funds to build of a church. In 1871, St. Albertus Parish was organized with three hundred or so Polish families. That same year, the parish purchased a plot of land, 100 feet wide and 270 feet deep, on the western side of St. Aubin Avenue and what is now East Canfield Street. They hired architect John Wiesenhoffèr, and construction of a frame church began in 1872.
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