[5] Under Sabine's leadership, in 1876, the congregation began construction on a new church building at 551 Madison Avenue, on the northwest corner of East 55th Street.

This company then built a 12-story, income-generating apartment building that included spaces on its lower floors for the church's nave and other activities.

The new apartment building was erected in 1931 and the church space on the ground floor was dedicated in September of that year.

[12] It donated its pipe organ—a Schantz instrument with three manuals, 37 registers, 26 stops and 31 ranks[5]—to the Daughters of Mary, Mother of Our Savior.

The southeast corner of the church featured a square bell tower topped with a pyramidal steeple.

The interior of the church was characterized by an open-timbered roof with carved ribs resting on corbels against the walls.