[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 for its architectural significance.

[1][3] St. Patrick's parish was established in the 1850s by missionaries from Chippewa Falls, with a frame church built on N. Barstow Street in 1858.

In 1880 St. Patrick's bought the current lot at the corner of Fulton and Oxford, dedicating their new church building in 1882, but it burned in 1884,[4] before they could finish the brick veneer.

[4] The current (1885) church was designed by Abraham M. Radcliffe - a brick building with a gable roof and three matched doors across the front.

[5] Built at the height of the log drives on the Chippewa River, St. Patrick's is the oldest surviving church building in Eau Claire.