St. Luke's Parish consulted several architects, including Robert Cary Long, Jr., John Notman and Frank Wills, before selecting the Baltimore firm of Niernsee and Neilson. Services began to be held in the unfinished church in November 1853. J.W. Priest, a proponent of the ecclesiological approach and a founder of the American Institute of Architects, was hired in 1857 to repair structural problems and complete the design of the church. Gothic features of St. Luke's include a clerestory and side aisles, lancet and rose windows, quatrefoil tracery, buttresses and a crenelated tower. St. Luke's Church is located at 217 North Carey Street, just above the northeast corner of Franklin Square.
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