The nearby Holy Cross parish primarily served Irish immigrants. When the Holy Cross monastery closed in 1977, the parishioners joined with Immaculata to become the Holy Cross–Immaculata parish. The Mt. Adams Preservation Association raised enough funds to commission the restoration of seven paintings by Johann Schmitt. The paintings were mounted over the main altar and side altars between 1863 and 1870. [https://web.archive.org/web/20060906111335/http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/kade/springer/Ch4/ch4_p2.html] A painted scroll stretches above the main altar across a depiction of the Immaculate Conception. In German, it reads: