In 1864, local residents asked Pastor Herman Lemke of East Detroit to help them organize a Lutheran church in Fraser, and that same year they built a small wood-frame building on land south of 14 Mile Road. Each week after Sunday service, the pews were moved aside so desks and chairs could be set up for the school week. In 1867, the congregation replaced the small church with a larger wood-frame church and school. A fire destroyed that building on Christmas Eve 1884. In 1884-85, members built a new two-story school and a separate church with seating for 600, and the school had two classrooms, one on each floor. St. John school was the only school in Fraser until the village built a one-room schoolhouse at 13 Mile and Utica Roads around 1882. As the area's population grew, church members requested schools closer to their homes, and in 1877 the church built two additional schools, one at Cady's Corners on Utica Road and the Krim School at Plumbrook and Dodge Park Roads in Sterling Township. Krim served residents until around 1894 and Cady's Corner until 1929. Both closed as improved transportation allowed students to be educated elsewhere, including the St. John school in Fraser. In the 1940s and 1950s, St. John pastors drove school buses daily. In 1957, the church finished moving all classes to a school building built here in 1948. The 1884-85 school became the Fraser Public Library in 1964, and members built a new church here in 1985-86.