On December 29, 1863, Evanston was incorporated as a town from the small village originally called Ridgeville. Evanston Catholics, up to this time, had attended Mass in the German parish of St. Joseph in Wilmette or in the Luxembourger parish of St. Henry at Devon and Ridge in Rose Hill (now part of Chicago's Far North Side).

On June 26, 1864, a meeting was held in the Calvary railroad station to make plans for an English-speaking parish in Evanston. $1,327.00 was pledge d by Evanston Catholics and a few prominent Methodists and on July 20, 1864, a lot was purchased at the corner of Lake and Oak from Isaac Buchanan for $200. St. Mary's Parish officially began on Sunday, August 15, 1865, when the first Mass in Evanston was celebrated in the open air, under a white oak tree, just west of the the present entrance to Calvary Cemetery. The altar at the Mass was a plain kitchen table.

The foundation for the first church was laid in 1866, but due to a lack of funds, a decision was made to build a temporary frame church, twenty by forty feet, on the northwest corner of the foundation. This served the congregation until a larger frame church was completed according to the original plans.
By the late 1880's, the congregation of St. Mary's had outgrown it twenty-year-old frame church, and the cornerstone of the new church was laid on May 3, 1891. It is constucted from Ashlar limestone and the two 100-foot-tall spires of the church were copied from St. Patrick's Church in Philadephia. The architect was Stephen A. Jennings, who had designed many picturesque homes in Evanston. Archbishop Feehan dedicated the new church on May 15, 1892.

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