For over 100 years St. Matthews has worshiped God and served people from our two buildings on Wayne Street between Barrow and Jersey Avenue. In 1897 we purchased the Barrow Mansion and the adjacent gardens. The mansion was built in the 1830's as the home of Dr. William Barrow and his wife Eliza. The building's distinct Greek Revival architecture is a rare survivor from Jersey City's antebellum era. Also known as the Ionic House, due to its distinctive two-story portico with colossal columns, the Barrow Mansion retains much of its original fabric. The mansion is a designated landmark on both the National and State Registers of Historic Places. Described by the eminent architectural historian, the late Henry Russel Hitchcock as "..an architectural monument of great distinction."

For more than 80 years the Barrow Mansion was the parish house of St. Matthew's, accommodating our education, recreation and social ministries. In 1984 the Barrow Mansion Development Corporation was founded with the mission to preserve its historic architecture and promote its use as a center for community service. Today the mansion is home to a variety of community-based organizations and businesses and St. Matthew's is proud to still be apart of this important mission.