It is a basically rectangular single-story wood-frame structure, with a steeply pitched gable roof.

Its exterior is clad in a combination of wooden clapboards, shingles, and applied Stick-style woodwork.

The tower has narrow windows (arched in the Gothic style on the second level), with an open belfry topped by a pyramidal roof with flared eave.

[2] Berlin's Congregationalist congregation first organized in 1836, when a Sunday School was established, and the first settled minister was hired the following year.

The congregation first met in private spaces (typically homes or barns), until 1852, when the owners of the H. Winslow store made their upstairs hall available for services.