It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1986, for its significance in architecture.

The building was designed by architecture firms Carrere & Hastings and Shreve, Lamb & Harmon.

[4] In 1837 a board of trustees and officers, elected at a meeting at the local schoolhouse, started planning for a Presbyterian society for West Bloomfield, the township informally known as Cranetown that later, in 1870, was officially recognized as Montclair.

Samuel Ware Fischer was the church's first pastor, from 1839 to 1849 and later served as President of Hamilton College.

A new church building, at the corner of Park Street and Claremont Avenue, was dedicated on October 15, 1922.