John H. Dooley, was built in 1906–1907 as a brick and stone chapel and three-story parish house, all over the basement, to designs of F. A. de Meuron of Main Street, Yonkers, New York, for $45,000.

[1] The structure was a five-bay three-storey Beaux-arts brick school house with a stone-quoined breakfront occupying the central three bays that contained a temporary church and rectory.

The new church, school, and rectory cornerstone was laid on November 11, 1906, and the structure was dedicated on June 30, 1907 by Archbishop John Farley.

Time Out New York calls it "gorgeous,"[6] while the AIA Guide to NYC urges passersby to enter and admire a sanctuary that looks as though it was designed by a disciple of Sir Christopher Wren.

[8] On November 16, 1938, Thomas Merton was baptized at Corpus Christi Church and received Holy Communion.