[1] It is a 1-1/2 story rectangular frame building sitting atop a plastered stone foundation and covered with clapboard siding.

[3] The front facade has a double-door center entrance, and boasts a square tower topped with an octagonal belfry.

Their church did not have a permanent priest after suppression of the Jesuits in Canada in the late 18th century; the log structure was moved from Fort Michilimackinac to Mackinac Island about 1780-1781 by British orders.

This Sainte Anne Church was used by the French and Metis residents who were the majority of the permanent population through the early 1800s, most connected to the fur trade.

Magdelaine Laframboise, a prominent Métis fur trader, donated land next to her mansion for the church when it needed a new site.

[7] This mission was primarily to educate Indian youth, and enrolled students from all around the Great Lakes region.

[2] Heydenburk and helpers cut and planed lumber on the main shore, transported it to the island, and finished the church over the winter.

[3] In the late 19th century, the island became used a summer resort destination for people from major cities such as Chicago and later Detroit.

The seasonal influx of summer residents soon overwhelmed the space available for the island's small Protestant congregation.