The Louis Sullivan-designed building has been individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1985.

As the congregation continued to grow a larger building was needed and in 1870 a new structure was built on the corner of Fourth Avenue and Fifth Street SE.

That site, including the church and parsonage, were later razed to provide the location of the Young Women's Christian Association, now the present-day Waypoint shelter.

[4] Property for the present church building was purchased in 1909 at Third Avenue and Fourteenth Street, SE, which was on the edge of town at the time.

He designed a “Modern church for a seven-day program”[4] that included Sunday School space, a gymnasium and a sanctuary with a multi-colored glass dome in the auditorium.

The building would have cost twice the amount the church was willing to spend so Sullivan was told to re-draw his plans.

The project included new carpeting, a new organ, a remodeled chapel, and the gymnasium was converted into classroom space.