[2] The building, a well-kept example of Maine's coastal summer churches of the turn of the 20th century, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

It is set overlooking Pendleton Point Road, the major north-south route on the narrow island, which runs to the east of the building.

It is a roughly cruciform structure, its long axis oriented north-south, and is finished in wooden shingles and stucco, with a rubblestone foundation.

The eastern facade, on the downhill side of the sloped site, has an exposed basement with stone buttresses and arched louvered openings.

Its capacity was rapidly exceeded, and the present building, designed by Boston architect Francis R. Allen, was built as a major expansion of that structure in 1901-02.