The Resurrection Church is an example of eclectic style with predominance of pseudo-Russian motifs. The temple was adorned with thirteen large and small domes: five of them were located on an elevated rectangular tambour, while the others were on the pediments that complete the facades.

The abbot paid attention to the improvement of the surrounding area. The slopes of the hill were covered with turf, and at the foot, on the edge of the upper platform and around the church, paths were laid, sprinkled with sand or paved with bricks. Along the paths, trees were planted, mainly firs. Between the paths, Joasaph ordered the establishment of a raspberry patch. In the eastern slope of the hill, a cave was dug for prayer solitude, following the example of ancient monastic traditions.

For his favorite hermitage, the abbot personally composed a rule distinguished by strict piety. The monks were to constantly work and pray, feeding only on plant-based food. Women were strictly prohibited from entering the territory of the hermitage.

It is likely that the strictness of the rule doomed the plan to failure. The monks did not want to live in the hermitage. Despite all the conditions for monastic life, the hermitage remained empty until 1913 due to a lack of volunteers. Times changed, and it became difficult to find lovers of solitude even among the monks.

A serious illness forced Joasaph to leave the post of abbot in November 1877. After that, construction in the Paul Monastery almost ceased. The only major building erected during this period was the bell tower, built between 1881 and 1887. It was a four-tiered tower with a large onion dome. The lower tiers of the bell tower, decorated in the Russian-Byzantine style, have survived to this day.

If a chronicle had been kept in the Paul Monastery at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, it would have mentioned only a few significant events. In 1904, an icon-painting school for twenty students was opened in the abbot's residence. In 1908, the construction of a new two-story hotel began, which has survived to this day. In the summer of 1909, the monastery suffered from a severe fire, in which the silver reliquary of Paul Obnorsk, arranged by Joasaph, was destroyed.

Funds for the restoration of the monastery were collected throughout Russia. Tsar Nicholas II donated a new reliquary for the saint's relics. In the summer of 1912, the restoration work after the fire was completed. In this regard, the monastery was visited by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, sister of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, widow of the Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, who was murdered in 1905. After his death, she took monastic vows and became known for her charity.

Currently, the monastery is an active branch of the Vologda Spaso-Prilutsky Monastery.