Nunzio Grasso, an Italian immigrant who became a stonemason in Grand Junction, built the walls and round arches of this church with blocks of rough-faced sandstone from the Little Book Cliffs Quarry. The church flaunts Florentine stained glass windows above and colored, leaded, and etched glass in the basement windows that came from its 1890 predecessor. Rose windows adorn the diminutive transepts. An oversized central tower has the entrance in its base.