In addition to its role in REC history, the church was also noted for its Tiffany stained glass windows, many of which survived in different locations.

[3] Cheney was part of the low-church evangelical party in the Episcopal Church and objected to the then-ascendant Anglo-Catholic movement.

[7] In 1920, due to the widening of roads surrounding the building―what the Reformed Episcopal Church called the "imperious demands of the automobile industry which have been made upon Michigan Avenue, once marked by the most beautiful and costly homes of Chicago"―the congregation was forced by "stern necessity" to sell the building.

After Christ REC was demolished, its windows featuring the Virgin Mary, St. Luke, St. Agnes and an angel announcing the Resurrection were given to Trinity Reformed Episcopal Church at 70th and South Yale in Chicago.

An additional ornamental window was moved to Tinley Park but not installed and was donated to St. Matthias Anglican Church, then the cathedral of the REC Diocese of Mid-America, in 2006.