It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 as St. Peter's Church and Rectory.

[3] The German Catholic men organized themselves in 1886 in order to support the establishment of their own parish.

It was served by Benedictine monks from St. Benedict's Abbey in Atchison, Kansas, as there was a shortage of German-speaking priests at that time in the Davenport diocese.

[3] Rock Island, Illinois architect Mathias Schnell designed the church, and Wickham Brothers of Council Bluffs was responsible for its construction.

[3] The following year the men of the parish built a frame schoolhouse for the parochial school.

St. Peter's along with St. Mary's in Des Moines (no longer extant) were the only two ethnic parishes, meaning non-territorial, in the diocese.

It features a symmetrical facade on the gable end and a 100 feet (30 m) central bell tower capped with a spire.

The apsidal end of the church features three lancet windows located high in the walls.