St. John’s Episcopal Church was organized on February 7, 1924, and met initially in rented buildings. The present site was purchased in 1925; several wood-framed buildings were erected through the 1940s. The existing Gothic Revival church and chapel were designed by church member Joseph J. Patterson (of the architectural firm of Wilson, Patterson, Sowden, Dunlap & Epperly) and built in 1952, at a cost exceeding $250,000. An education wing was added in harmonious style and materials in 1965-66, creating art interior cloister with the earlier buildings. The complex is distinguished by a sensitive use of fine materials — polychrome brick with sandstone and cast stone trim — and by a well integrated picturesqueness of composition. The overall diminutive scale is charming.
