The original church building was designed by noted Galveston architect Nicholas J. Clayton and dedicated in 1892.
It was destroyed in the 1900 hurricane. The current structure, in Moorish and Gothic style, replaced Clayton’s French
Romanesque building in 1904. It is the only Roman Catholic church in the United States built in this style. Today’s church houses
the only five artifacts that could be salvaged from the 1892 building.