Its small white frame church building was completed the following year in a Gothic Revival style.

[2] The builders of the church were Captain James Pierre Drouillard and his wife, born Mary Florence Kirkman.

[2][3] Mary Florence Kirkman Drouillard was the granddaughter of Anthony Wayne Van Leer, who was a member of a well known historical family in Pennsylvania and noted in the anti-slavery cause.

[3][5] In 1870 they built their three-story Italianate mansion home, now known as Drouillard House, on a site that overlooks the community.

[2][3][7] They also constructed a school for both black and white children on the land where the church's parish hall now stands.