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Two of the township's church buildings carry their dimensions in the county histories — a survey in embryo, assembled here. The measured stock: Olive Branch United Brethren (1878) — a frame building 30 × 40 feet, costing about $1,000, its trustees including H. A.Advent Christian building (commenced c. 1 March 1880) — 32 × 46 feet, $1,162, dedicated 18 July 1880; the Union Church (1875) — a frame building raised "regardless of sect" in the township's northeast. The dated stock without dimensions: Lakeville United Methodist, the society of c. 1839 housed in the village in 1857–58 at 610 N. Michigan (the first-church conflict C15/C45 carried in the religion file, not re-litigated here); the Christian Church, the village's second church (1880), "a good building" in the histories' phrase and no more; Sacred Heart (1932/33), in the block article above; County Line Brethren — its original frame church destroyed by the Palm Sunday tornado of 1965 and replaced in brick on the county-line ground, the survey's one storm entry; Lakeside Baptist (515 Michigan Trail), building course unreached. The survey's completion stands as residue: the SHAARD church rows for the township (gap G-SP-7) would date and describe the standing buildings the histories measured only in passing.
Principal sources: the banked Churches & Religion (lk-rel-olive-branch, lk-rel-advent, lk-rel-union, lk-rel-lakeville-umc, lk-rel-christian, lk-rel-county-line, lk-rel-lakeside), dimensions and dates as banked there.