View down unpaved road or drive to entrance to church with Norman bell tower. Picket fence and leafless trees along this road and Woodward. Italianate house next to church. Printed on mat back, partially obscured by typed label: "Photographic sketches, in and about the city of Detroit. Consisting of street and marine views, public buildings, churches, monumental and other objects of interest. Photographed and published by Jex Bardwell." Typed on label on mat back: "St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church, Woodward Avenue and High Street, in 1881." Handwritten on mat back: "St. Johns Protestant Epis. Church, 1881. Woodward & High."
