[1] The first Episcopal Church service in Sioux City was conducted by a missionary from Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1857.

The church was designed in the Romanesque Revival style by local architect James W. Martin.

[3] It is influenced by a later phase of Henry Hobson Richardson's design evolution in its more simplified cubic form.

Its exterior is clad in rose-colored Sioux Quartzite was laid using in a broken ashlar technique.

The interior features a steeply pitched hammer beam birch ceiling, wainscoting, and a large Gothic arch at the chancel opening.

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