The New York City firm that won a national architectural competition for the design of this cathedral accommodated the surrounding residential neighborhood with a low, generously landscaped English Gothic Revival design clad in random-coursed Indiana
A taller central tower, transepts, and south additions included in the original design were never completed. The attached Parish House (1928, Merrill H. and Burnham F. Hoyt) is of particular interest for its Gothic Revival St. Martin's Chapel, with a magnificent wooden reredos by sculptor Arnold Ronnebeck. Across the street at 13th Avenue and Washington Street, a Public Service Company substation (1990) camouflaged by brick-work and triangular pediments echoes the lines of the cathedral rectory.