[3] The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 1980, for its significance in architecture and religion.

[1] The construction of the Morris Canal had bisected the parish of St. Patrick's Pro-Cathedral, and also attracted Catholic immigrant workers to the area, necessitating a new worship space.

[1] The neighborhood was depopulated by urban renewal projects which cleared out residential areas and saw the expansion of neighboring university campuses, and by white flight after the 1967 Newark riots, accelerating a post-World War II decline in enrollments as parishioners decamped for the suburbs.

[1] The congregation had declined to about 30 when the archdiocese closed the parish in 1980, the same year the complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

[3] A local housing non-profit, the New Community Corporation, acquired the complex for $105,000 shortly thereafter and began redeveloping it.