The landscape around Emmanuel United Church of Christ has changed dramatically around the church since it was found in 1866 and when the current building was constructed in 1874.

Of course this was originally an German Evengelisch congregation before that denomination joined together with other Protestant churches in the mid-Twentieth Century. And major roads have expanded around it since then, as well.

Like so many churches in St. Louis, it really has the massing of a Gothic Revival church, but yet has the ornamentation and windows of the Romanesque Revival.