Built in 1850, it is one Connecticut architect Henry Austin's significant church designs, exhibiting a mix of Carpenter Gothic and Romanesque features.

It was built for a congregation formally organized in 1839 that is now affiliated with the United Church of Christ.

To the left of the main facade is a square tower, also finished in wooden clapboards, and with similarly decorated windows.

A cornice above the belfry is decorated with densely placed brackets, and the octagonal spire above has slender dormered windows on four faces.

The building's use of both round-arch Romanesque windows and lance-arched Gothic windows illustrates a tension in church design at the time, in which some Congregationalist churches sought to differentiate themselves from the typically Gothic Roman Catholic buildings.