Barn Church
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The Barn Church was built by William Lakie in Troy, Michigan as a dairy barn in 1912 and is now a State of Michigan Historic Site ([#P24409]). When its life as a daily barn was complete, this unlikely structure was converted to a church and remains one to this day.
Prior to its purchase by the Presbyterian Church in 1928, electric interurban cars would stop at the barn to pick up milk to take to market. The Presbyterians made some modifications to the barn to convert it for use as a house of worship. They removed the silo, and added a steeple and a appropriate entrance. Completeing the transformation, the hay loft became the chancel.
In 1970 the church was sold by the Presbyterians to a growing Unitarian Universalist congregation from the nearby community of Clawson. Today the church remains Emerson Church Unitarian Universalist.
