Since both buildings are on a hillside above the street, the lot is fronted by a tall stone retaining wall.

[2] The first church was built in 1881 to serve Park City's largely non-Mormon mining community, an anomaly in the Mormon-dominated state.

The mining boom in the area around Park City brought miners, many of them Catholic, from all parts of the country.

[2] The school was constructed in the early 1900s and staffed by the Sisters of the Holy Cross until its closure during the Great Depression.

[1] In 1991, Jim and Sally Ivers donated land for the construction of a new church, which was dedicated on August 15, 1997, the Feast of the Assumption of Mary.