To provide a home for the Jesuit missionaries serving the new Church of Ste. Anne, French carpenters probably built the priest’s house sometime in the mid-1740s. The house was connected to the church. Even after the Jesuits priests were recalled in 1765, the Michilimackinac congregation maintained the house in hopes of attracting a new priest. The house served as a temporary home for Fr. Pierre Gibault, who visited Michilimackinac in 1768 and 1775. The priest’s house was moved to Mackinac Island in 1780-81.
The priest’s house was excavated in 1967 and reconstructed in 1970. Today it is set up as a period setting.
The main entrance has two steps. Guests in wheelchairs should enter around the back, past the church. The building also has a 3” level change.
