Former St. John’s Provincial Seminary saw revival as a golf, hotel and conference center in the 2000s; Pulte family will continue operations

PLYMOUTH — The Archdiocese of Detroit will sell the Inn at St. John’s hotel, golf and conference complex in Plymouth to the family estate of the late homebuilder and Catholic philanthropist William J. Pulte, the archdiocese and Pulte family announced Aug. 2.

Pulte Family Management SJ LLC, a wholly owned for-profit entity of the William J. Pulte Trust, said in a joint news release with the archdiocese that the sale was completed July 30. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The complex is the site of the former St. John’s Provincial Seminary, which educated and formed seminarians to the priesthood for Michigan’s seven Catholic dioceses from 1948 to 1988. The seminary’s graduate school of theology served thousands of students until the establishment of Sacred Heart Major Seminary’s own graduate theology school in the late 1980s.