Levinus Clarkson, a local landowner who had married into the Livingston family, constructed it in 1860 for a group of dissident Episcopalians that included himself.

Projecting hoods with scrolled brackets shield the windows and main entrance, a paneled double door with transom light.

[2] In 1854, Levinus Clarkson, husband of Edward Philip Livingston's daughter Mary, left his position as vestryman at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Tivoli, south of Clermont.

Its decorative hoods distinguish from Richard Upjohn's similarly Gothic St. Luke's on US 9 elsewhere in Clermont.

Later in the century it became the property of Columbia County, when developers defaulted on their taxes for a nearby horse farm.