St. Columba Church Building

2-story church completed in 1845. The church was constructed by parishioners who employed as laborers on the west side docks, who would spend evenings at the site after loading and unloading ships all day.

The base is clad in beige brick, while the upper floor is set back and the brick is painted bright red. The base is organized into three main sections, each with an arched doorway with brown wooden double-doors and a stained glass fanlight with a limestone surround. The center bay has a narrow round-arched stained-glass windows on either side of the doorway, with smaller limestone arches. The outer bays have a matching window to the inside, but the outer side has a secondary entrance with a single wooden door, also below a limestone arch. Sets of beige steps with black metal handrails lead up to each entrance. The two brick piers separating the bays project forward slightly, and end in points just above the roof line of the ground floor. In between them, above the doors and windows, are rectangular panels of brick in a herringbone pattern, also outlined in brick, and the ground floor ends in a stone coping between the piers.

The set-back upper floor has a very tall stained-glass window in the center bay, ending in a pointed-arch. Angled, projecting brick buttresses separate the end bays, which both have a shorter pointed-arch stained-glass window; each of these has white-painted brick edging, and the middle one also has a white stone lintel. The windows St. Columba, Saint Patrick and Saint Brigid. The upper roof line is white stone, flat at the ends, and then angling to a central peak, where there is a small round window, and a crowning white cross.

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