The building was designated a city landmark in 1973 and added to the National Register of Historic Places the following year for its artistic and architectural significance.

Its initial members were mostly Irish immigrants and their children, to later be joined by Germans and Poles.

[3] By the 1890s the parish was ready for a grander, larger building, and they hired James J. Egan of Chicago as architect.

The tower is flanked with corner buttresses and rises to a spire topped with a cross, 122 feet above the street.

Sculptor Gaetano Trentanove carved the white marble sculpture of the Madonna and Child incorporated into the south altar.