Completed in 1904, the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church in North Easton, is a historic structure designed in an English country church style reflecting the Irish heritage of it parishioners. Constructed of stone laid in a rustic, un-coursed manner it has low side walls and a steep gable roof covered with red slate tiles, as well as historic Gothic elements, such as lancet windows, buttresses and a crenellated tower. The Immaculate Conception Church is the outgrowth of a Roman Catholic congregation that began to assemble in North Easton in the early 1830s, as industrial growth surged, bringing in many immigrant families from Ireland for work. Irish Catholics first began meeting in private homes, before the Ames Family, who hired many of these workers nearby at the Ames Shovel Works, donated land on Main Street for a Catholic chapel. As the shovel works increased its production throughout the 19th century, so did the population of North Easton, which saw more Irish workers arrive, necessitating larger church buildings. In the early 20th century, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Boston called in the Rhode Island-based architectural firm of Murphy and Hindle, to design the present church building. While of the Neo-Gothic style, the church contributes to the general architectural character of North Easton’s Romanesque style buildings of heavy stone masonry.
