The second Roman Catholic church built in Havre de Grace was in a building at the corner of Warren and North Stokes Streets (the first having been St. James the Less Catholic Church at Mt. Erin Cemetery in 1844). In 1846, Father John O'Neill was given a lot on this southeast corner of Warren and Stokes Streets. The cornerstone of the Saint Patrick Church was laid on September 1, 1847, marking the beginning of the parish of Saint Patrick. “Church” appears in this location on the Herrick and Jennings 1858 Map of Harford County. A parsonage was built in 1862, just south of the church (at 425 North Stokes Street).

This building served the parishioners of Saint Patrick Parish until the 1907 dedication of the new St. Patrick’s Church on Congress Avenue. At that time the rectory next door was sold and became a private residence. While that building was still standing in July 1977 it has since been demolished and is now an empty lot.

In 1908, James Cardinal Gibbons (1834-1921) of the Catholic Church in Baltimore sold this building to the Eagles Home Association. The 1910 and 1921 Sanborn Maps show “Eagles Hall” here, opened by the Eagles Home Association in 1908. A 1912 distant photo of the church appears here and shows its proximity to the Pennsylvania Railroad Station. In 1931 the Havre de Grace Lodge No.1564 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks took over the building. The Elks held their 15th Annual Tri-State Convention in Havre de Grace in 1935. The late Phil Barker remembers being very active in the Elks and was the Exalted Ruler one year. The building is shown as BPOE Lodge Hall on the 1955 Sanborn Map—that was before the Elks built and moved to the large facility on Route 40 in 1963.

This old church building was purchased by the Christopher Corporation in 1963 and became the Knights of Columbus. They had a bar and social hall on the second floor and the main hall was used for various social functions, including bingo and pinochle. In March 1974 the building burned down in a huge fire; the remaining rubble from the roof and interior is said to have been buried behind Bomboys’ candy shop on Market Street when the City used that area as a dump. The retaining wall stones were repurposed and used to create the steps leading down from Tydings Park to the Yacht Basin parking lot. The original altar stone from the 1847 church was discovered and presented to St. Patrick's Church on Congress Avenue. That engraved stone is now displayed in the garden of St. Patrick's Church.

The Knights of Columbus rebuilt this, keeping the side walls, and sold it together with the lot of the former rectory in 1999 to the “Room at the Cross Mission Church,” established in 1988, and led by Pastor Bob Savage.

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Built 1940. 4611 sq ft, 2 stories with basement, stone, 2 baths, 9,000 sq ft lot.