St. Mary Cathedral (Lansing, Michigan)

	St. Mary Cathedral
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	229 Seymour St.; Lansing, Michigan
Coordinates	42°44′8″N 84°33′22″W / 42.73556°N 84.55611°WCoordinates: 42°44′8″N 84°33′22″W / 42.73556°N 84.55611°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1937
Architect	Bowd,Edwyn A.
Architectural style	Late Gothic Revival
Governing body	Private
NRHP Reference #	90001716
Added to NRHP	November 02, 1990

St. Mary Cathedral is a cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church in Lansing, Michigan one block north of the Michigan State Capitol. It is the seat of the bishop of the Diocese of Lansing.

The style church was designed by E. A. Bond in the Gothic Revival style. Construction began in 1911 and was completed in 1913.^{[citation needed]} The stained glass windows were made in Munich, Germany and installed in 1923. In 1939, the church became the cathedral for the newly formed Diocese of Lansing.

In January 1938, a serious fire broke out in the rectory and Bishop Joseph H. Albers, the survivor of a World War I gas attack, collapsed inside the building before he was rescued by firefighters.^[2]

References[edit]

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13.
^ Faith Magazine, History of Lansing diocese "The Past Four Bishops of Lansing". Diocese of Lansing. Retrieved December 9, 2010.

"St. Mary Cathedral, Lansing". Our Church History. Retrieved December 1, 2005.
"Michigan Stained Glass Census". Michigan Stained Glass Census Window of the Month for May, 1998. Retrieved December 1, 2005.