History
The Very Reverend Frank Millspaugh, dean of Trinity Cathedral, founded St. Martin in 1876. Millspaugh and his successor George Worthington founded most of the Episcopal churches in Omaha. The church's architecture represented the purity of worship through a return to the historical Christian church styles of the Middle Ages. The limestone for the church was salvaged after Dr. George L. Miller's Ralston mansion burned down in the late 1880s.
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