[2][3] The Santa Cruz Catholic Church was built Manuel G. Flores in the Spanish Colonial Revival style with Islamic nuances, including a minaret-like bell tower.

A continuous choir loft on the eastern side of the building above the entryway creates a sequence of compression at the entry, which opens up into a tall space above the nave.

[3] In November 1924, some Mexican copper miners that were striking for better wages and better hours set some dynamite off inside the church, although nobody was hurt.

The strikers, many of whom were veterans of the recently concluded Mexican Revolution and Carmelite exiles, caused a significant amount of damage to some of the building's trusses, which can still be seen today.

Furthermore, the blast was so powerful that it blew the front door of the church off and cracked the building's plaster walls.