Construction on the building began in 1755 and was finished in 1760 when Danville (Hawke at the time) petitioned to form a town of its own, separate from Kingston.

The building, now maintained by a local nonprofit organization,[2] was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

The interior retains original box pews, with a raised pulpit and reading desk at the center of the north wall.

[2] The meeting house was built c. 1759-60 by local residents for what was then the west parish of Kingston, before it was separately incorporated, first as Hawke, then as Danville.

Its well-preserved interior provides a major view into the architecture of older (no longer extant) meeting houses, which it is documented to resemble.