Christ Church renovation thoughtfully meshes old and new elements

Christ Church, located on Jefferson just east of the Renaissance Center, has completed a $2 million renovation that connects the disparate elements of the historic campus in a manner that is architecturally sensitive.

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Why go to so much trouble with an older building? Because, says the Rev. Carol Cole Flanagan, the interim rector, buildings like Christ Church are part of Detroit's DNA, the city's basic identity that signals the future as well as the past.

For the church, updating its historic home was important because of "the elements that went into its founding and shape its continuing mission for the future," Flanagan said.

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