• Date: 1915
• Style: Jacobethan
• Architect: Walter A. Hager, Sr.: Original (Ennis Austin, Remodeling)
• District: Downtown Historic Registry

In 1929, St. James expanded by building an underground parish hall and church school. This underground addition was designed by Otto J. Goffeney, the church organist and choirmaster, based on the Christ Episcopal Church in Indianapolis and the Goodman Memorial Theatre in Chicago. This $35,000 addition included a large auditorium and stage, an acolytes room, a guild room, a choir room, a kitchen, and classrooms. In 1956 the church once again expanded, this time by purchasing the two-story Hager Building located on the south side of the church. The Hager Building was built c. 1920 by Walter A. Hager, Sr., a physician who specialized in diseases of the eyes, ears, nose, and throat. Early occupants of the building included other physicians, along with the architectural firm of Austin and Shambleau and Charles W. Cole, an engineer and founder of Cole Associates. Upon the death of Dr. Hager in December 1927, the tenants of the office changed frequently until 1937, when the structure became the Community Services (later United Fund) Building. From 1937 until its sale in 1956, the building housed a number of social service organizations, including the Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, and Family Welfare Society. N. Roy Shambleau, an early tenant of the building and partner of Ennis R. Austin, architect of St. James, was hired to do the remodeling of the parish hall in 1956. The Parish Hall, or Hager Building, is an excellent example of a small, eclectic style commercial structure built in the early twentieth century.

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