"[2] The parish was founded by the Augustinian friars on April 22, 1906, with the first Mass occurring in a small garage on North Street near Jerome Avenue.

[3] Immediately from 1906 on, construction of a permanent church with parochial buildings on Andrews Avenue and Fordham Road commenced.

[3] By 1914, the University Avenue and Fordham Road property that the present church stands on was purchased and being prepared.

[3] The present Collegiate Gothic church structure was built in 1927 to the designs of Delaney, O'Connor & Schultz.

"The fire started in a former confessional-turned-storage room in the vestibule of the church, blocking the main entrance.

[7] The teaching faculty were a mix of layperson educators, Augustinian priests, and Dominican nuns.