Dark brick church with white bell tower on left. Choice Groceries next door, on right side of photograph. Streetlamp and dirt road in foreground. Printed on back: "New series panoramic and cabinet sketches, in and about the city of Detroit, photographed and published by Jex Bardwell, 31 Monroe Avenue." Handwritten on back: "St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Congress E. near Rivard, 1881."
