The complex includes the church, chapel, rectory, parish house, and school.

The church was originally constructed in 1752, with an addition in 1849, and modifications to the front facade in 1874 by architect Edward Tuckerman Potter (1831–1904).

It is cruciform in plan, three bays wide, with a slate-covered gable roof.

[2] A group of women from the church founded St. John's Riverside Hospital in 1869 to care for the poor of the parish.

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