About the Author

Marla O. Collum is grants manager at the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, DC. From 1998 to 2008 she was the historic review officer for the City of Detroit Planning and Development Department and also served on the board of directors of the Michigan Historic Preservation Network for six years during that time. She has an MS in historic preservation from Eastern Michigan University.

Barbara E. Krueger is a graduate (MS) of Eastern Michigan University's historic preservation program. Krueger is a research associate (folk arts) with Michigan State University Museum's Michigan Stained Glass Census, a past president of the Hartland Area Historical Society, and a founding member and board member of the American Glass Guild.

Dorothy Kostuch was a longtime instructor of art history at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit (formerly the Center for Creative Studies), who died in 2005 after a long battle with cancer. Kostuch received a PhD in art history from Columbia University and traveled extensively through Europe to visit architecturally significant buildings. Her expertise in art history and medieval architecture led her to teach a course on historic Detroit churches and spawned the beginnings of this book project.

Reviews

Detroit's Historic Places of Worship, the most comprehensive chronicle of the city's historic churches, has been 20 years in the making, and all that time and work shows. . . . Compiling such a work requires considerable dexterity and balance. Every house of worship profiled has something to delight both the armchair historian and the aesthete.--Matthew Alderman "The Living Church"

When the city declined and shrank, many places of worship closed or relocated to the suburbs. But even so, there are many open churches today that merit praise as architectural wonders. That's precisely what a new and important book, Detroit's Historic Places of Worship accomplishes. Spectacularly photographed by Dirk Bakker, the volume also includes informative text on 37 houses of worship.--George Bulanda "Hour Detroit" (9/4/2012 12:00:00 AM)

With a focus on architecture from 1848 to 1950, Detroit's Historic Places of Worship provides in-depth descriptions of 37 [ . . .] structures. Complementing the text are photographs that illustrate the interior and exterior details of these buildings.-- "Michigan History" (11/1/2015 12:00:00 AM)