Noted for its Tiffany windows, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places[2] and is a designated Milwaukee Landmark.

Members included many prominent citizens of the time, which helped the church to become the most influential Episcopal congregation in the state.

The building was designed by local architect Edward Townsend Mix in Romanesque Revival/Richardsonian Romanesque style and built in 1884 using Lake Superior Sandstone, a dark red sandstone found near the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior.

It is believed that the building closely resembles one which was designed by architect Henry Hobson Richardson, whose plans were published in the Architectural Sketch Book in 1873, but never built.

[3] A committee appointed by the church established Forest Home Cemetery on Milwaukee's south side, the final resting place of many of the city's famed beer barons and social elite.