Epiphany Episcopal Church (Detroit, Mich.)

"In the summer and fall of 1894, the subject of establishing an Episcopal Mission at some point in the thickly settled and rapidly growing section of the city near the water works was being considered." The first meeting to establish a mission in this Detroit, Michigan neighborhood was held late in that year at the Park Avenue home of George E. Thompson. Sometime in January of 1895, representatives of twenty-four families signed an application to formerly organize a parish. Originally known as Water Works Mission, the name was soon changed to Epiphany Mission, and in the fall of 1895 the "old Rose school house (20 x 80 ft.) ... was purchased for $50 and moved across open fields to a location on Cadillac."

Early in 1899, the Reverend Overton Tarraut was appointed the first missionary in charge of Epiphany. It was during his incumbency that the church moved to what would become a permanent Detroit location at Cadillac and Kercheval.

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