St. Paul’s layout and Gothic Revival styling closely follow Ecclesiological tenets. The road to its consecration, however, was rocky, trying the patience of the rector, who reported in September 1858, “We have struggled on with uncontrollable difficulties, with faithless contractors, with unreliable friends (pecuniarily) to the almost completion of the building.” In 1854, the church vestry had requested plans from a “Mr. Humpage” and had asked James Lull for an estimate. Somehow Lull did not satisfy them, and the nearby Catholic church’s builder, William H. O’Neal, was called in. The building that he erected closely conforms to plate 10 in Episcopal bishop John H. Hopkins’s An Essay on Gothic Architecture (1836). It displays a tall, square central entrance tower, repetitive pointed arches, cren-ellations at the roof and tower, and many pinnacles. The nave has a wood-trussed ceiling and a narrower chancel framed by a pointed arch and terminated by a reredos. A sacristy projects to the west. Stained glass windows illuminate the interior. The church’s former rectory (PR15) has been moved a block north to a site on Main Street.