This early Gothic Revival brick church has rectangular massing, elongated pointed-arched windows, and a square tower rebuilt in 1927. It is probable that the designer was the talented clergyman John Henry Hopkins, who had recently designed Trinity Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh and Christ Episcopal Church in Meadville. Hopkins left the area in 1831 for Boston and was elected the bishop of Vermont in 1832; he wrote the first book in the United States to deal specifically with
Lu Donnelly et al., "St. Peter's Episcopal Church", [Waterford, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-ER40.
Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 502-503.
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