Built in the 1820s to a design by Ithiel Town, it is one of the earliest known examples of Gothic Revival architecture in the United States.

The main facade is divided into three sections by the tower, each of which has a doorway set in a two-story Gothic-arched recess, with a window above.

The sides are five bays deep, with buttresses separating Gothic-arched windows, and brownstone finials at intervals along the roof line.

Primary construction of the edifice lasted from 1827 to 1829, with the tower (designed by Nathaniel Sheldon Wheaton, after traveling to see country churches in England) not completed until 1939.

[3] Later additions to the building include alterations designed by Henry Austin, George Keller, Frederick Withers, and Ralph Adams Cram.