The church interior, supported by Romanesque Corinthian marble columns, is decorated with geometric mosaics.

[8] Art historian Annie Labatt sees the influence of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran in the apse.

[9] The adjacent school is a four-story, brick building with terra cotta accents in the Classical Revival style.

[4] In addition to their parish work, the monks at St. Anselm's also served as chaplains to the Corpus Christi Monastery of Dominican nuns at Hunt's Point, the Sevilla Children's Home, and supervised the order's mission in the Bahamas.

[4] Augustinian Recollects took over responsibility for administering the parish; its ethnic make-up has evolved to reflect Spanish and Latin American heritage.

damian baker was the pastor in the 1950s to early 1960s The Church of St. Roch was founded in 1899 as a national parish to serve Italian Catholics.

The parish's ethnic composition developed to reflect immigrants from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Mexico.

In 1974 the archdiocese transferred parish administration to the Augustinian Recollects of the Province of St. Nicholas of Tolentine, based in Madrid.