St. Paul's School was also a contributing property in the historic district, but it has subsequently been torn down.

There were, however, few Catholics in the area when Mazzuchelli was dispatched to Burlington to buy land in 1839 and establish St. Paul's Church.

As a way to strengthen Catholicism in the area Loras chose St. Paul's as the location for the ordination of the Rev.

It was also to Burlington that Loras fled when tempers flared between the Irish and German Catholics of Dubuque.

The Burlington area was served regularly by a visiting priest after Loras left town, especially the Rev.

Many of the people who harbored these beliefs had moved to Burlington from the eastern United States where such thinking was rampant.

George Reffe, who started Burlington's first parochial school in the church basement in 1849.

The Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary started teaching at St. Paul's in 1859.

[5] The parish's second church building, a brick English Gothic-styled structure, was completed in 1863.

The present St. Paul's Church was designed by Chicago architect James J. Egan in the High Victorian Gothic Revival style.

Those separate operations merged in 1958 with the opening of Notre Dame High School on the city's west side.

[9] In the 1990s a fund drive was held and a new grade school wing was added at Notre Dame.

St. Paul's Church is constructed of Bedford limestone and the exterior features a corner tower on the right side of the facade that rises to 100 feet (30 m).

The taller central window features an image of Saint Paul the Apostle.

[6] Built between 1902 and 1904 in the Georgian Revival style, it is a two-story house that features a steeply pitched, multiple hipped roof covered in slate.

The structure is basically rectangular in shape, however, the north half of the main facade projects slightly from the rest of the house.