The nondenominational Grosse Pointe Protestant Evangelical Church was organized by its founders on September 7, 1865. In 1867 the first church was erected at Kerby Road and Lake Shore Drive. A stone and wood-frame building on this site, known as the "ivy-covered church," was built in 1894. In 1920 the congregation reorganized as a Presbyterian church. This Neo-Gothic limestone church, designed by Detroit architect W. E. N. Hunter, was dedicated on May 15, 1927, with stained-glass windows by the Willet Studios of Philadelphia, Pewabic tile from Detroit, wood carvings by German carver Alois Lang, and a tower housing a forty-seven-bell carillon. In 1962 the education wing was erected.