John Roche, a land owner in Huntington, owning around 10,000 acres (40 km2), had always wanted an English-speaking church, specifically an Irish one.

He died before he could accomplish his dream but his sister Bridget took the money that she had received for selling her brother's 10,000-acre (40 km2) estate to build St. Mary's Catholic Church.

When completed the Church had a good review with stained glass windows from the Royal Bavarian Art Institute of Munich; with eight large columns of imported Italian granite to support the arches in the nave, the large statues and Stations of the Cross from France; the pews are made of oak, and polished red brick on the exterior.

It was in the late 1940s that the church removed its three large and ornate altars as well as the elaborately carved wooden frames fitted around the current Stations of the Cross for replacements with a more modern appearance.

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