In January 1938, a serious fire broke out in the rectory and Bishop Joseph H. Albers, the survivor of a World War I gas attack, collapsed inside the building before he was rescued by firefighters.

Another renovation from 1967 to 1968 removed the communion rail, side altars, and stations of the cross and reconfigured many other elements.

The church sits on a granite foundation, and had a red ceramic tile gable roof.

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