It covers about 2 acres (0.81 ha) between Groton and Hawley Streets, occupying all but the western part of a complete city block.

The church was designed by Woonsocket, Rhode Island architect Walter F. Fontaine in association with Joseph G. Morissette of Lawrence.

[2] The schools and rectory are built out of brick, while the convent is stuccoed on the exterior, and the church is an elaborate example of Gothic Revival architecture in multicolored ashlar granite.

In 2004 the Catholic church consolidated seven parishes in Lawrence down to three, and this complex was sold to Sagrado Corazon LLC.

The schools and convent have been converted to residential use, while the church and rectory are leased to a sedevacantist Traditionalist Catholic Dominican order.